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Jakob Bro: Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jakob Bro è un ancor giovane chitarrista danese (classe 1978) che sta incominciando a ricevere i giusti riconoscimenti e le dovute attenzioni, non solo per le sue collaborazioni con leggendari musicisti come Tomasz Stanko, Paul Motian e Bill Frisell. Le incisioni per la sua Loveland Records ci mostrano l'evoluzione da un neo bop de-strutturato e contaminato con le nuove tecnologie e tendenze giovanile verso una musica aperta, svincolata da paletti stilistici, con un suono personale e dalle strutture compositive sofisticate ...
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by Jakob Baekgaard
Hearing music is a journey towards discovering the world anew. If anything, this is a philosophy that the young Danish guitarist Jakob Bro has taken to heart. Throughout a career that has seen him playing in a wide range of constellations, among them groups led by trumpeter Tomasz Stańko and the late drum legend Paul Motian, Bro has never lost his intuitive approach to making music. No matter who he is playing with, there is never a sense of redundancy; ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro: Balladeering
by Jakob Baekgaard
Throughout the process of recording Balladeering, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was followed closely by filmmaker Sune Blicher, who documented the sessions, which took place at the famous Avatar studios in New York, capturing the poetry of the music in pregnant images. A recurrent motif in the movie is musicians engrossed in listening, and this particular framing also finds its way into the photos by Robert Lewis that grace the album, becoming a metaphor for the music itself and the spirit ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro: The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1
by Jakob Baekgaard
The transition from promising talent to well-established artist isn't always easy and some musicians seem doomed to be placed in the eternal category of “interesting new voice." Clearly that is not the case with young Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, who has become one of the leading stylists in a new generation of jazz guitarists that include his fellow players in Paul Motian's band, Steve Cardenas and Ben Monder.Bro's evolution as an artist has been a journey towards simplicity. ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro: Pearl River
by Jakob Baekgaard
Sometimes, finding a good jazz record is a bit like fishing: either you catch something or you don't. The search is always on for that particular phrase, beat or tune that will transport the mind to a state of bliss: the state called jazz. Coming across an album like Pearl River seems like a lucky find. Like finding a pearl in a river. But there's more than plain luck involved in the case of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro. ...
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