Alex Jønsson

Alex Jønsson is an award-winning Danish guitarist, composer and improviser.

He has been greatly recognized for his Nordic and melancholic expression – both as a composer and a

soloist - and has toured in most of Europe as well as in India.

Most people will know him from orchestras like I Think You’re Awesome, Mirja Klippel and Bagland.

Yet, in recent years, as a composer and a bandleader, Alex Jønsson has raised his profile as one of the most interesting jazz guitarists on the modern scene.

He has released four albums as a leader, played on a number of significant releases and has been nominated for a Danish Music Award Jazz no less than nine times!

Alex Jønsson: Heathland

Read "Heathland" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
April 14, 2020

Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jonsson returns with the same trio heard on Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus (Self Produced, 2016), with bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen and drummer Andreas Skamby. This is a studio recording with richer sound, but the band's music shows considerable growth beyond that. The title tune opens the set, a rubato exercise in three-way communication, which covers a lot of ground in its brief duration. Jønsson employs more electronic processing here, starting with the ghostly, ...

Album Review

Alex Jønsson: Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus

Read "Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 19, 2016

Recorded live at a living room concert, Heart of Gold presents an intimate portrait of Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jønsson and his trio. The title tune opens the set: it's not the well known Neil Young song, but it does have an Americana tinge. Drummer Andreas Skamby sets up a pillow of sound using mallets, bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen plays a repeating bass pattern, and Jønsson's guitar sings the tune. When he solos he usually favors single note lines with a ...

Album Review

Elliott: Girls with Radical Haircuts

Read "Girls with Radical Haircuts" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 30, 2013

The three young Danish musicians who comprise Elliott-- guitarist Alex Jønsson and double bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen, two-thirds of the indie-pop-jazz Foyn Trio! with Norwegian vocalist Live Foyn Friis, and trumpeter Jakob Sørensen, are aware of all music that was created in the last one hundred years. As the trio declares: “we already have everything from Billie Holiday to The Beatles and Björk," yet this trio is definite that there is more that it can offer. These ...

Album Review

Alex Jonsson 3: The Lost Moose

Read "The Lost Moose" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 12, 2013

Danish guitarist Alex Jønsson--currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden-- recently graduated from the acclaimed Danish Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, but already has a defined and focused aesthetics on his first release as a leader. Jønsson, together with reed player Lars Greve and drummer Christian Windfeld, has managed to create a recording of immediate, light and highly melodic songs, all embodying a reserved Nordic melancholy and thoughtfulness. These songs border on a pop songs sensibility, and it ...

- “It’s unhurried, expansive music that nevertheless never lacks momentum and tension.” (London Jazz News) - ”Alex’s playing is full of emotion and has a refined maturity beyond his years.” (UK Vibe) - “...a lyrical and refreshingly twisted player.” (Downbeat Magazine) “Jønsson’s playing has a delicate sound control and it reaches into a deep musical truth.”  / Jazznytt (Norway) "His music is personal and breathtaking" / Berlingske (Denmark) “Jønsson plays elegantly and beautifully on his guitar, where simplicity and feeling precedes technical finesse” / Soundofmusic.nu (Sweden) “Jønsson’s guitar is circling effortlessly around simple and beautiful melodies to create haunting moments once improvisation and melodies collide.” / Jonas K, Mos Eisley (DE), “a new kind of jazz” / Lira (Sweden) “It is not difficult to understand why the Aarhus lad is considered one of the leading guitarists in Denmark.” / Martin Seymour, Fyens Stiftstidende (DK) “It feels as if time and space disappears (…) it is big and very beautiful” – Jazznyt, (Denmark) “From the fabling “Apple Pie” over the playful sounds of “Nesøya” (…) a musical pallet of intelligence and sensitivity unfolds” / Jazzspecial (Denmark) “It is three excellent musicians who are able to stimulate an individual as well as a collective creativity” ***** / Berlingske (Denmark)