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Jacob Young: Sideways
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista norvegese Jacob Young giunge al suo secondo album per l’etichetta ECM di Manfred Eicher e riprende il discorso iniziato con il precedente Evening Falls senza cambiare gli ingredienti della ricetta. La musica rimane crepuscolare e malinconica, pervasa da quella luce soffusa che solo il grande nord sa evocare con sincerità e intensità. Anche i compagni di strada rimangono immutati, nel segno della continuità e della facilità dell’interplay assicurata da una comunanza di idee e di approccio. Le dieci ...
Continue ReadingJacob Young: Lyricism and Elasticity
by John Kelman
Now thirty-four years old, guitarist Jacob Young has been active on the Norwegian music scene since the early '90s, when he'd return home during summers off from his studies at New York's New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. With three records under his belt on smaller Norwegian labels, the time has come for him to reach a broader international audience, and the release of his ECM debut, Evening Falls, which has been out in Europe for a few months ...
Continue ReadingJacob Young: Evening Falls
by John Kelman
While guitarist Jacob Young has been on the Norwegian circuit for ten years, releasing three albums under his own name as well as a beautiful duet record with singer Karin Krog, Evening Falls is his first to receive widespread exposure. And that's a good thing as Young, in those ten years, has developed, much like piano counterpart Tord Gustavsen, into a singular artist who manages to blend a more ethnic Scandinavian approach with a clear respect for the American tradition. ...
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