Aki Rissanen: Amorandom review – advanced ideas with a street-sharp attack

(Edition)Aki Rissanen, the 36-year-old Finnish composer and improviser, is a classical graduate who found jazz, winning plaudits for it at festivals as big as Montreux, and star collaborators including US saxophonist Dave Liebman. Rissanen’s left-field metamorphoses of the familiar have been notable in his compatriot Verneri Pohjola’s bands. Amorandom, an acoustic trio set and his own fifth release, offers plenty more of that. The R&B hooks of Robert Glasper or the contrapuntal f