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Jakob Dinesen

If Danish jazz has one genuine playboy, it must be 46-year old Jakob Dinesen – with a thick line under play. He and his sax and his good looks have romped around most of the world: Europe, Africa, Cuba, Thailand, USA, Japan and Australia. He has received just about every award a Danish musician can get – Grammys and soloist awards. When he saunters on stage, there are always a few moments of total concentration; then a crisp, searching sound emerges from the bell of his sax before starting up. Perhaps jumping straight into an improvisation, perhaps a loyal interpretation of whatever tune is on the agenda. Behind him lies music played with Paul Motian, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, Eddie Gomez, Steve Swallow, Tony Allen, Etienne Mbappe, Ignacio Berroa, Nasheet Waits – just to drop a few names

Keys & Strings

By Jakob Dinesen

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: Homely; Hope; Thaya; Smuk; Hugso; Free Eddie; Konge og Bajads; First One. CD2: Spring Is Here; Milton; Nicolai Smuk; God Bless The child; Charlie Haden’s Sound Of Love; Dance on Roses; Everything Happens to Me.

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 ...

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 ...

Dan Phillips BKK Quartet: Bangkok Edge Live

by Ian Patterson
July 13, 2014

Guitarist Dan Phillips has long been a leading figure in nurturing jazz in his adopted home of jny:Bangkok. Whether teaching in the city's universities or through his club gigs, Phillips has mentored and inspired many of Thailand's upcoming jazz musicians. With the excellent pairing of drummer Chanutr Techatana-nan (aka Hong) and bassist Pornchart Viriyapark, the trio's ...

Dan Phillips BKK Trio: Bangkok Edge

by Dan Bilawsky
February 8, 2013

Thailand isn't exactly known the world over as a jazz mecca, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its fair share of talent in this department; one need look no further than the back cover of guitarist Dan Phillips' Bangok Edge to discover the names of some of the movers and shakers on the Thai jazz ...

Dan Phillips BKK Trio: Bangkok Edge

by Ian Patterson
November 18, 2012

It's been two years since guitarist Dan Phillips released Jazz Guitar--Basics and Beyond, (Self Produced, 2010), his impressively practical and digestible instructional DVD. Jazz guitar Professor at Bangkok's Silpakorn University, Phillips stressed the necessity of composing as the surest route to finding one's own voice, and leading by example--as any University Professor worth his salt should--Phillips ...

Dino

By Jakob Dinesen

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Come Sunday; Night Of The Strooch; Justice; Tennesee Waltz; Ochun; Darwin; Onlyest Way; Heart Of A Fool; Butterfly Man; Dance On Roses; Good Onions.

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 ...

One Kiss Too Many

By Jakob Dinesen

Label: Loveland
Released: 2007