Jazz Articles about Jakob Dinesen

Lyrical Stories in Music: Jakob Dinesen & Jean-Sebastian Simonoviez, FLOW and Michael Vincent Waller

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 18, 2019

Saying that a piece of music is lyrical presupposes a quality that is hard to define. You know what it is until you need to explain it. The Cambridge Dictionary says that it means: “expressing personal thoughts and feelings in a beautiful way," which doesn't really say much. In music, storytelling is just as elusive. It's easy when you tell a story through words, but musical storytelling without words is hard to define. Perhaps it will do to say that ...

Jakob Dinesen: Keys & Strings

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 29, 2019

In the liner essay for Jakob Dinesen's double album, Keys & Strings, writer Eddie Michel Azoulay mentions the tenor saxophonist's quest for truth and beauty. The romantic poet John Keats is not mentioned directly, but his lines from the famous poem “Ode on a Gracian Urn" immediately come to mind: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Indeed, it would be correct to call Dinesen a ...

Jakob Dinesen: Dino

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 29, 2009

While it's certainly not appropriate to judge a musician's sound by his appearance, it says something of the relaxed nature of Danish saxophonist Jakob Dinesen that he, one time at a gig, chose to perform with bare feet. It's such joyful eccentricity that sets Dinesen apart from other saxophonists on the Danish scene and makes him tower above the talented mass of Coltrane imitators.

Dinesen's approach to the horn is certainly modernistic, but his use of open form and space ...

Jacob Dinesen - Ben Besiakov - Eddie Gomez - Nasheet Waits: Lady With A Secret

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 14, 2006

Insieme alla Francia e l’Olanda, la Danimarca è la nazione europea più attenta a sostenere finanziariamente i talenti locali del jazz. Lo attesta in modo inequivocabile il prestigioso premio Jazzpar, assegnato ogni anno a due differenti categorie di artisti: gli affermati protagonisti della scena internazionale e - cosa ancora più importante - i giovani musicisti dell’area scandinava. Nel 2004 quest’ultimo riconoscimento è andato al trentasettenne sassofonista Jakob Dinesen, il quale ha avuto così la possibilità di proporre la sua musica ...