Joakim Berghäll: SOLO Coltrane

Joakim Berghäll: woodwinds

As a person and a musician, Joakim finds inspiration and excitement in all kinds of music. He says there is one musical home that always inspires him more than any other – Coltrane. While studying in Denmark nearly 25 years ago, he and three close friends used to play the entire “A Love Supreme” suite from beginning to end several times a week.

SOLO Coltrane is a project by saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Joakim Berghäll, in which he performs the music of John Coltrane (and, to some extent, Alice Coltrane) solo. The album of the same name was completed to celebrate the centenary of John Coltrane’s birth and features those of Berghäll’s most cherished compositions that lend themselves best to solo performance.

Photo: Dorit Salutskij

The concert is supported by City of Helsinki, Svenska Kulturfonden and The Finnish Music Foundation.