Pekka Pylkkanen & Eric Ineke

Nordic Bop Pekka Pylkkanen & Eric Ineke

Eric Ineke: "When Pekka Pylkkänen invited me in 2017 to play a couple of concerts with him in Finland and Estonia, I immediately responded with an enthusiastic YES!! Having played together before, I knew the music would be great and swinging! Pekka got the idea of putting together a repertoire of tunes written by some of the great Jazz legends I played with during my earlier career. During the concerts, we all felt that it worked out really well and that we should at least put some of the repertoire in the can for the right moment to release it on album. Well, that moment came five years later. I have a close connection with at least five of the tunes, because I toured in the past with their composers..."