Hanne Pulli is considered as a versatile and style-concious drummer. She has been thanked for her natural air of drumming and for her musicality. She has good knowledge of jazz traditions with something new and interesting.
Hanne Pulli (-82) was brought up around music as her parents are music teachers and music enthusiasts. From age 5 to 16 she played violin in Savonlinna Music Institute, but she knew very early that she wanted to play drums. She finally got her wish through, when Pekka-dad bought a drum set as a joke. After a year, Hanne could already play more than her father!
At the age of 16, she was accepted to Sibelius Junior Academy Of Jazz Music, where she was taught by Teppo Mäkynen, Markus Ketola, Kari Ikonen, Esa Onttonen and Mika Kallio. Since then she has been studying jazzmusic with different teachers and mentors and has graduated from both Jyväskylä Conservatoire and Helsinki Polytechnic.
This distinctively creative and expressive player was chosen to ”Pori Jazz Artist Of The Year” in 2005. In the same year she was the first Finn ever to be chosen to IAJE’s (Association For Jazz Education) ”Sisters In Jazz All Stars” program. The combo performed in several Jazz Festivals both in Europe and US.
In spring 2009 Hanne joined the European Jazz Orchestra (organized by EBU, European Broadcasting Union) for a three week European tour with musicians from all over Europe. The Big Band toured with conducter and composer Peter Herbolzheimer and performed in nine different countries. (www.swinging-europe.com)
Among playing in different combos and projects, Hanne is also a member of the Finnish Jazz Sisters (www.jazzsiskot.fi), a small society that aims at supporting the work of finnish women musicians in the field of jazz.
Hanne Pulli Space Machine
During the Fall 2007 Hanne decided that it was time to take the abandoned compositions from the drawer and set up a band. Hanne was inspired by certain vision; she wanted her band to have an electronic, weird and crazy sound with enough freedom for the musicians to play the compositions with their own way. After several concerts and a demo release it was clear that the group had developed its own sound and was ready for a whole album release. The album comes out in October 2010 and it introduces Hanne as a composer for the first time. Her seven compositions ended up to the nine song album. Hanne Pulli Space Machine’s music could be described as electronic, improvisation based and experimental.
Hanne Pulli, drums
Kalevi Louhivuori, trumpet
Antti Kujanpää, keys
Petri Kautto, guitar
Jori Huhtala, bass
Kvalda
Among other bands, Hanne plays in Kvalda, a jazz ensemble which combines lucid Scandinavian jazz and free expression into a fresh and modern blend of music. Kvalda won the inter-Nordic competition Young Nordic Jazz Comets 2004 – the final was held at Stockholm Jazz Festival. The quartet, formed in autumn 2002, has experience of several performances both in Finland and abroad. Kvalda has released two albums: Leia (2007) and Kvalda (2004).
More information at www.kvalda.net.
Aili Ikonen, vocals
Antti Kujanpää, piano
Jori Huhtala, bass
Hanne Pulli, drums