Results for "Once Around the Room"

Video

Song to an Old Friend

Featuring the music of Jakob Bro
Duration: 05:56
September 20, 2024

All About Jazz writer Robert Middleton has published a thoroughly researched and affectionate article entitled Saxophone Meets Guitar: The Dynamic Duo of Jazz In addition to his playlist of 463 inspiring songs from the genre, consider also "Song to an Old Friend" by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro with legendary tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano. This piece takes down the tempo to "ECM label chill," allowing the listener to appreciate how complementary the sounds of these two instruments can be. Sax vibrato begets guitar with chorus; sax grit from the throat is matched with guitar distortion from an effects box. With the audio released on a tribute recording to drummer Paul Motian called Once Around the Room, this video captures the performers' subtle chemistry in the studio.

Album

Once Around the Room

By Jakob Bro

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: As It Should Be; Sound Creation; For the Love of Paul; Song To An Old Friend; Drum Music; Pause.

Article: Year in Review

Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2022

by Mike Jurkovic
December 14, 2022

Jazz continues to evolve and win swaths of converts despite what Tik-Tok and a chaotic, crumbling music industry (and world order) might render. These discs, in no particular order and representing no particular form, (ie: bop, free, nu-jazz, house jazz, whatever) are just a small gathering of the many great discs and great ideas the music ...

Article: Album Review

Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano: Once Around the Room

by Mike Jurkovic
October 21, 2022

The thrumming double basses of Larry Grenadier and Thomas Morgan initiate the conversation. Then the scattered insistence of rhythm by drummers Joey Baron and Jorge Rossy enters, pushing Once Around the Room into consciousness with all the anticipation and hushed intent of an orchestra tuning before a performance. Airy clusters of guitar courtesy of Jakob Bro ...