Jimi
Tenor
Improv, London
Jimi Tenor is a little
bit Finnish, a little bit rock'n'roll - two qualities that, in the normal
course of things, would be impossible to reconcile. The singer-keyboardist,
known to his mother as Lassi Lehto, has somehow managed it, establishing
himself as the Nordic answer to both Barry White and George Clinton. Refusing
to be stymied by genetics - he's bespectacled, white and about five foot
two - he has just released his second album of funk-flecked lounge music...
The
full review from The Guardian is available here
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