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Three Jazz Books and a Work of Jazz Fiction by All About Jazz Contributor Jakob Baekgaard

Three Jazz Books and a Work of Jazz Fiction by All About Jazz Contributor Jakob Baekgaard

Source: All About Jazz

All About Jazz contributor, Jakob Baekgaard, has published four books with selections of pieces previously published on All About Jazz. Each book has a different theme. A Song for Valentine  Jazz fiction First published on All About Jazz as a short story in four parts with the title, Last Song for Valentine, this version, now titled A Song for Valentine, has been expanded into a novella with eleven chapters, including a new ending. It also comes with a soundtrack/playlist with ...

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Recording

New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen

New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen

Source: Lars Hannibal

Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

Jakob Bro (1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently leading a quartet with Mark Turner, Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan, a quartet with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan and Jorge Rossy and a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the spring of 2018 he released the highly acclaimed album Returnings through ECM Records. In October that same year his trio released the album ...

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Book / Magazine

'Misty: The Music of Johnny Mathis' by Jakob Baekgaard

'Misty: The Music of Johnny Mathis' by Jakob Baekgaard

Source: All About Jazz

Few singers have been able to change with the times like Johnny Mathis. Although his fame rests on his massive popularity in the '50s and '60s when he competed with Elvis and Frank Sinatra and outsold almost anyone, Mathis has remained relevant through the decades and no other crooner is as technically skilled or able to cover multiple genres so convincingly. Jazz, soul, disco, country, classic and contemporary pop, Mathis has adapted his impressive vocal range to all kinds of ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

Jakob Bro (1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently leading a quartet with Mark Turner, Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan, a quartet with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan and Jorge Rossy and a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the spring of 2018 he released the highly acclaimed album Returnings through ECM Records. In October that same year his trio released the album ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The young guitarist Jakob Bro has not only made an impression on the Danish jazz scene; as part of the group led by legendary drummer Paul Motian, Bro also performs with many top American musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group's album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music. “Motian's way of ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The young guitarist Jakob Bro has not only made an impression on the Danish jazz scene; as part of the group led by legendary drummer Paul Motian, Bro also performs with many top American musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group's album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music. “Motian's way of ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The young guitarist Jakob Bro has not only made an impression on the Danish jazz scene; as part of the group led by legendary drummer Paul Motian, Bro also performs with many top American musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The young guitarist Jakob Bro has not only made an impression on the Danish jazz scene; as part of the group led by legendary drummer Paul Motian, Bro also performs with many top American musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The young guitarist Jakob Bro has not only made an impression on the Danish jazz scene; as part of the group led by legendary drummer Paul Motian, Bro also performs with many top American musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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