Jazz Articles about Andreas Skamby

Alex Jønsson: Heathland

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, ...