Juhani "Jukka" Haavisto (5 June 1930 – 24 November 2023) was a Finnish musician with the honorary title of music councilor.

[1] Jukka Haavisto passed the matriculation exams in Kauhava in 1948 and studied to become a teacher, graduating from the Jyväskylä Pedagogical Institute in 1956.

He had already made the decision to retire as a musician, but when he was listening to the Happy Swing Band, he felt that he had to perform once more with his friends.

[…] I decided that it is better to quit out of my own accord, not when I’m forced to, demanded by the public.”[3] Haavisto was pleased to see the talent of the new generations of jazz musicians in Finland.

He said he was “easily provoked to reckless undertakings, it is easy to talk me into new things.”[3] Haavisto was one of the founders of the Association for the Promotion of Finnish Popular Music in 1994.

His book Puuvillapelloilta kaskimaille (‘From the cotton fields to the land of slash-and-burn’) (1991), is still the most recent general treatise of jazz in Finland.