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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro
All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jakob BroThe 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 ...
Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes
by Warren Allen
Since he first caught listeners' ears in pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda's Polish quintets of the 1960s, Tomasz Stanko has grown to be recognized as one of the most sophisticated and distinctive trumpet players in the world. His dark-hued sound and brassy screams hearken to the souls of Miles Davis and Chet Baker, while the context ...
Soren Dahl Jeppesen: Route One
by Jakob Baekgaard
The new wave of Danish jazz has brought several guitarists into the public eye, among them, Jakob Bro, Mark Solborg, and Mikkel Ploug. However, a somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Søren Dahl Jeppesen. His graceful, lyrical tone and abilities as a composer have benefitted the ambient chamber jazz of the group Pauseland. ...
Balladeering
By Jakob Bro
Label: Loveland Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Weightless; Evening Song; Vraa; Starting Point (Acoustic Version);
Greenland; Terrace Place; Sort; Starting Point (Electric Version).
Jakob Bro: Balladeering
by Jakob Baekgaard
Throughout the process of recording Balladeering, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was followed closely by filmmaker Sune Blicher, who documented the sessions, which took place at the famous Avatar studios in New York, capturing the poetry of the music in pregnant images. A recurrent motif in the movie is musicians engrossed in listening, and this particular framing ...
Tomasz Stanko Quintet at RNCM Theatre, Manchester
by David McLean
Tomasz Stanko Quintet RNCM Theatre Manchester, England October 11, 2009 The fire hinted at in Tomasz Stanko's most recent album, Dark Eyes (2009, ECM), has become the focal point of his new quintet's live operations. Whereas the trumpeter's latest ECM disc ferments with economical restraint and brooding atmosphere, the live incarnation of this material ...
Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes
by David McLean
Tomasz Stanko Quintet Dark Eyes ECM Records 2009 It has been a regular event at the ECM label for artists to change line-ups after three albums. After a trio of releases with the prodigiously talented pianist Marcin Wasilewski--(Soul of Things (ECM, 2002), Suspended Night (ECM, 2003) and Lontano ...
Globe Unity: Denmark
by Tom Greenland
Jesper Løvdal Free Fall Ilk 2008 Thunderstrucks Thunderstrucks Blackout 2008 Jonas Westergaard Helgoland Sundance Music 2008 Denmark has nurtured ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...
Molde Jazz: Day 2, July 14, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Arve Henriksen / Marilyn Mazur / Tomasz Stańko Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 14, 2009For the uninitiated, it can be somewhat disorienting to leave a concert at 10 at night ...
