CD-REVIEWS

Sax player Esa Pietilä, the composer of the Case has become to the final front-line of Finnish jazz-musicians.
The Case plays very ambitious music with an excellent balance.
The tunes of Esa Pietilä have fine ideas.

(Jukka Hauru / Helsingin Sanomat )

One can hear trough the music that musicians have had a great time doing the CD .
The music sounds very unconstrained, energetic and spontaneous.
The rhythm section plays vigorously and there«s good solos.
Piano player Jarmo Savolainen's work deserves an extra thanks.

( S.H. / Jazzrhythms magazine, Finland )

Promising Finnish jazz. Pietilä has an awekening search in his tunes.

(Jaakko Tahkolahti / HS Nyt-liite )

On the field of Finnish jazz Pietilä has many proof, that he is to be taken seriously. In this music there´s good balance between acoustic and electric expression, and the tunes also have lot of variety . CD sounds surprisingly colourful and rich

( Veli-Pekka Heinonen / Aksentti, Finnish radio broadcasting )