Jarmo Saari

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Jarmo Ilari Saari (born 14 March 1970) is a Finnish guitarist, composer and producer. He has played with XL, ZetaBoo and Anna-Mari Kähärä’s Orchestra, and has released three solo records as part of his Solu project. In 2012 he founded the band Jarmo Saari Republic with three drummers, and that same year he received the Finland Award for his artistic work. Saari was born in Kauniainen, Finland. As a child he sang in a choir and played cello and trombone; he got his first guitar at ten, which became his main instrument. He studied guitar and composing at the Jazz Department of Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, starting in 1992, and earned a Master of Music in 1999. His graduate concert at the Savoy Theatre was an audiovisual show. Saari is best known for his work in Finnish jazz. His style is described as visual, with compositions that blend guitar, voice and rare instruments in a multidimensional way. He began performing solo in 2000, under the project Jarmo Saari Solu (Solu means cell). He has worked with musicians like Jukka Perko, Emma Salokoski, the UMO Jazz Orchestra and Tuomari Nurmio, and he has written music for Finnish films and collaborated with choreographer Tero Saarinen.