Eero Koivistoinen

Eero Koivistoinen is a Finnish saxophonist, composer and arranger, born in 1946. He has been active since the mid-1960s, studied at the Sibelius Academy and at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and moved between modern jazz and jazz-rock. He is best known for his 1970s albums, above all Wahoo! (1973), and for his long work with the UMO Jazz Orchestra. Koivistoinen played in an early trio with Edward Vesala and Pekka Sarmanto and was a member of the rock group Blues Section in 1967 and 1968.