About
Tight Lines Quartet is a jazz band, where all members are passionate fly fisherman. These four jazzmen, dedicated one year of their lives to gather a group and pursue only their passion together to do the Jazz & Fly Fishing tour. Despite of day-jobs they did the tour of their lifetime. They only had their passions, little money and instruments but they went head-on to an adventure that no one believed in or had done before.
The band was touring the summer 2009 and the tour is filmed to make a TV series about their adventures. This site is their blog and official website of the Tight Lines Quartet guys!
The first tour is now done, but of course there will be more gigs coming up. We’ll let you know! Join the mailing list!
At this time, Autumn 2009, the TV series is in post-production.
PHILOSOPHY
Jazz and fly fishing – what in the world do they have in common? Well, seemingly not that much. That is, until Jazz and Fly Fishing, a freshly-squeezed new concept devoted to the two was launched in 2008. Picture this: a “cream of the crop” jazz quartet of established young generation Nordic jazzmen take off on a fly fishing tour around Finland, Sweden and Norway playing gigs at big festivals, small jazz clubs and arctic hills alike. Needless to say, they spend all their spare time fly fishing beautiful rapids and peaceful mountain lakes. But that is just the starting point.
What really happens is improvisation. Fly fishing, a delicate improvisers’ game if there ever was one, is much about not letting the unexpected fool you. “The golf of fishing”, as it’s called, is in some aspects much like jazz, a world of interwoven details and meanings proved lethally addictive and endlessly rich with information.
The point, however, is not to marry jazz and fly fishing by force, but to do it effortlessly. Thus, the equipment and band members plus staff are fitted in to a bus that holds all necessary instruments for jazz and fly fishing. All this is executed with a touch of class, fishing with suits on, performing concerts in never-before-seen out of town settings.
Imagine a cracking modern jazz original next to the never-ending Northern summer light, a trout’s playful jump somewhere on the background, perhaps a nice slice of arctic char being cooked on the pan courtesy of the chef’s masterful touch. Make no mistake, though, nature hosts and jazz is the guest.
SUMMER TOUR 2009 AVENUES:
23/6 Narvik Jazzklubb, Fjellheisrestauranten Narvik, Norway 20.00.
26/6 Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Harstad, Norway 21.00.
27/6 Festspillen i Nord-Norge, Harstad, Norway 13.00.
28/6 Kalottjazz, Tornio/Haparanda, Finland/Sweden. Pikisaari, Tornio 15.00 (Finnish time)
4/7 Tromsø, Norway. Skansen Cafe 16:00
10/7 Linnajazz, Hämeenlinna, Finland. Torin Lava 16.00. 1 x 45 min
10/7 Linnajazz, Hämeenlinna, Finland. Suisto-klubi 21.00 1 x 90 minutes
28/7 Groove Valley Jazz Camp, Beiarn, Norway. Mathias Eick as guest.
31/7 Saxnäs, Sweden. 1 X 1 hous set. Very small venue
7/8 Elojazz, Oulu, Finland. Aittatori 18.30.
8/8 Varangerfestivalen, Vadsø/Vesisaari, Norway. Varangerfjord Hall 22:00.
12/8 Sweden. Göteborgs Kulturkalas // Hagateatern. 19:00
