ANTTI SARPILA PRODUCTION:

• “ORIGINAL ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-1
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band with special guest Pentti Lasanen -Antti Sarpila's first own production featuring original material arranged for a small group.
  


• “PORI BIG BAND PLAYS ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-2
  -Pori Big Band featuring Antti Sarpila as conductor and soloist playing Antti Sarpila's originals arranged for a big band.
  


• “HAPPY JAZZ TRIO" ASCD-3
  "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland" Antti Sarpila, Raimo Roiha and Harry Aaltonen -Old evergreens arranged for a trio ( cl/sax, piano, drums ) in the style of Benny Goodman-, Lester Young- and Charlie Ventura-trios.
  


• "SWINGING ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-4
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band 10th Anniversary -Antti Sarpila celebrates his bands anniversary with arrangements of old jazz classics as well as Antti Sarpila's originals.
  


• "TRIBUTE TO BENNY GOODMAN" ASCD-5
  Antti Sarpila & UMO Jazz Orchestra Live in Concert -Extremely successful live concert paying tribute to the "King of Swing". Including such hits as "Let's Dance", "Don't Be That Way" and "Sing, Sing, Sing".
  


• “FATHER & SON AND WHOLLY SWING" ASCD-6
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band with special guest Kari Sarpila -Father meets son and son meets father on the musical battlefield.
  


• “ANTTI SARPILA CLASSIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA" ASCD-7
  Live at Storyville
  -A line-up, which was formed by Antti Sarpila in order to do this live recording at Helsinki's brand-new and already by then extremely popularn jazzclub Storyville. First Finnish double-cd of jazzmusic.
  


• “ANTTI SARPILA MEETS MARKKU JOHANSSON" ASCD-8
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band with special guest Markku Johansson -Finland's number one trumpet player meets Antti's swing band. The repertoire varies from classic jazz to modern mainstream.
  


• “ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND 15TH ANNIVERSARY“ ASCD-9
  -Antti Sarpila celebrates yet again his bands anniversary with special guests: Markku Johansson, Pentti Lasanen, Kari Sarpila and Pelle Näätänen.
  


• “ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND 15TH ANNIVERSARY" ASV-101
  Concert live at Savoy Theatre - first Finnish jazz-video. This video features the whole concert recorded live in front of the audience.
  


• “STEALIN' APPLES" ASCD-10
  Antti Sarpila meets Ulf Johansson, Jan Adefelt and Martin Lövgren live at
  Pori Jazz -Antti Sarpila meets his fellow colleagues from Sweden for the first time.
  


• “THE SWINGING BEGINNING - ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-11
  -A cd put together from the tracks of the recordings from the early years of Antti Sarpila. This cd is included in the discography of Antti Sarpila called "The Swinging Beginning - Antti Sarpila" and is only available with the book.
  


• “THE BEST OF ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-12
  -A double-cd put together from the tracks, especially chosen by Antti Sarpila, highlighting the best moments of his career between 1987 and 1999. A double-cd for the price of one.
  


• “BIG BENNY" ASCD-13
  -Antti Sarpila, Lars Erstrand and Ulf Johansson with Sandviken Big Band. Tribute to Benny Goodman live on tour.
  


• "SWINGING AT STORYVILLE" ASCD-14
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band with special guest Bob Barnard live at Storyville -World famous Australian trumpetist meets Antti's band in Helsinki.
  


• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND 20TH ANNIVERSARY" ASCD-16
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band celebrating it's two decades with some of the biggest names in Finnish jazz.


• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND FEAUTURING JOHANNA IIVANAINEN "She's funny that way"
  ASCD-17
  Young and talented Johanna singing old classics from the "Great American Song Book" with Antti's band.


• "SWINGING CHRISTMAS" - Antti Sarpila Swing Band cd-single ASCD-18
  Six swinging arrangements of traditional Christmas carols.
  


• "PORTRAITS OF JAZZ BY ANTTI SARPILA" ASCD-20
  A selection of compositions by Antti Sarpila recorded with different line-ups. All the tunes are dedicated to the great masters of jazz drawing a musical portrait of each individual artist.


• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT LIVE AT FINLANDIA HALL" ASDVD-201
  
  This is the first live jazz concert dvd-video in Finland. Bonus video "Mr. Swing" - a portrait of Antti Sarpila.


• "SWINGING CHRISTMAS" VOLUME 2 CD-SINGLE ASCD-21
  Antti Sarpila Swing Band featuring the Swinging Christmas Choir. Second cd-single of Christmas music in the roe. A new element on this cd is the Swinging Christmas Choir formed from children.


• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND with special guest BOB BARNARD celebrating the 100th anniversary of FATS WALLER" ASCD-22
  This CD was recorded when the world famous Australian trumpet player Bob Barnard was visiting Finland. The music is by the great pianist, singer and entertainer Thomas "Fats" Waller.
  There are some immortal tunes like "Black and Blue" from his hit musical - Ain't Misbehavin'. Evergreens like "Honeysuckle Rose", "Stealin' Apples", "Blue Turning Grey Over You" and many more classics which take you back in time to the 1930's America to experience the irresistible melody and rhythm of the swing era.


• "ANTTI SARPILA meets EINO GRÖN - SWINGIN' N' SINGIN'" ASCD-23
  The grand old man of the Finnish tango - Eino Grön and the master of the Finnish swing music - Antti Sarpila have joined forces and recorded a bunch of evergreens some sung in English and some in Finnish. Antti Sarpila Swing Band provides the solid background and Eino Grön's velvet voice brings back memories of the immortal performances by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Nat "King" Cole.


• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND featuring EINO GRÖN SWINGING CHRISTMAS " VOLUME 3 CD-SINGLE ASCD-24
  One more cd-single bringing us the Swinging Christmas swung by the Antti Sarpila Swing Band and this time sung by Eino Grön.


• "LET'S SWING ANTTI SARPILA plays a tribute to the BENNY GOODMAN small groups" ASCD-25
  Antti Sarpila pays tribute to the king of swing and his chamber jazz combos. There are five previously unreleased tracks and a compilation of the best tracks by Antti Sarpila in the Goodman vein. Apart from Antti's band, there are some tracks featuring vibraphone player Lars Erstrand doing his rendition of Lionel Hampton and pianist Ulf Johansson Werre with his Teddy Wilsonish touch.



• "ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND featuring the swinging accordion of SEPPO HOVI" ASCD-26
  The master of the Finnish jazz accordion - Seppo Hovi proves how well the "unofficial" Finnish national instrument blends to the rhythms of swing music. Guesting on the cd on five tracks is band's trusted regular vocalist Johanna Iivanainen.
  (to be released in September 2005).


• "SWINGING CHRISTMAS - ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND featuring JOHANNA IIVANAINEN" ASCD-27
  The previous cd-singles have been combined with some new material for this full length cd. Swinging versions of familiar Christmas carols as well as some less known ones. Some of the brightest stars of Finnish light music are guesting. Included is a bonus video clip from the Swinging Christmas 2003 concert from the Finlandia-Hall featuring a choir formed from almost 100 children. The Christmas album of the year 2005 voted by the radio journalists.
  


• "THE BEST OF ANTTI SARPILA VOL II " ASCD-28
  The cd is a compilation of the best tracks from Antti Sarpila's career 1997-2005. It's a natural follow-up for the double-cd The Best Of Antti
  Sarpila (vol I) which included the highlights of Antti Sarpila 1987-1999. And of course again - double-cd for the price of one.
  


• "GOSPEL & SPIRITUALS - ANTTI SARPILA SWING BAND featuring JOHANNA IIVANAINEN" ASCD-29
  Some of the most beautiful melodies of sacred music played in the swing style. There are spirituals from the deep south of the USA as well as some well known psalms from the nordic countries. A special guest Leroy Jones from New Orleans is featured on several tracks.