Mikko Innanen

Finnish saxophonist/composer Mikko Innanen is among the promising improvisers who emerged on Scandinavia's avant-garde jazz scene in the late '90s. Innanen's work is a demonstration of just how long-lasting and far-reaching alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's influence has been on avant-garde jazz; Innanen was born in Lapinjärvi, Finland in 1978 -- which was 19 years after Coleman recorded the revolutionary The Shape of Jazz to Come with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins -- but he certainly isn't too young to have been greatly affected by Coleman's innovations and br...