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Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes
by Jakob Baekgaard
There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...
Sideways
By Jacob Young
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Sideways; Time Rebel; Slow Bo-Bo; Near South End; Out Of Night; Hanna's Lament; St. Ella; Maybe We Can; Wide Asleep; Gazing At Star.
Jacob Young: Sideways
by Martin Gladu
"Everything in nature is reborn within the circle of life, and shines with new brightness, hope and promises." These words, by writer/illustrator Flavia Weedn, find echo in Lillehammer, Norway-born Jacob Young's “Near South End," a spirit-lifting composition featured on Sideways, his second effort for ECM.Cold-water streams start running anew, licking away slick patches of ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by John Kelman
Born of an American father and Norwegian mother, Jacob Young's 2004 ECM debut, Evening Falls, may have introduced him to a more global audience, but he'd already been active on the Norwegian scene for a decade, releasing three albums for smaller independent labels. Still, with a strong quintet that is now back for Sideways, the guitarist ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by Budd Kopman
The enigmatically beautiful Sideways is the second ECM release from Norwegian/American (not Norwegian-American) guitarist and composer Jacob Young, coming four years after Evening Falls (ECM, 2004). While Evening Falls might have been a prime example of the ECM sound/aesthetic, Sideways ups the ante, demonstrating Young's very strong control over the elements of his ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista norvegese Jacob Young giunge al suo secondo album per l’etichetta ECM di Manfred Eicher e riprende il discorso iniziato con il precedente Evening Falls senza cambiare gli ingredienti della ricetta. La musica rimane crepuscolare e malinconica, pervasa da quella luce soffusa che solo il grande nord sa evocare con sincerità e intensità. Anche i ...
Evening Falls
By Jacob Young
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Blue; Evening Air; Minor Peace; Looking for Jon; Sky; Presence of Descant; Formerly;
The Promise; Falling.
Jacob Young: Lyricism and Elasticity
by John Kelman
Now thirty-four years old, guitarist Jacob Young has been active on the Norwegian music scene since the early '90s, when he'd return home during summers off from his studies at New York's New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. With three records under his belt on smaller Norwegian labels, the time has come for him to ...
Jacob Young: Evening Falls
by John Kelman
While guitarist Jacob Young has been on the Norwegian circuit for ten years, releasing three albums under his own name as well as a beautiful duet record with singer Karin Krog, Evening Falls is his first to receive widespread exposure. And that's a good thing as Young, in those ten years, has developed, much like piano ...
