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Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 10, 2026

Jakob Dreyer è un contrabbassista tedesco di quarantacinque anni di cui questo costituisce il terzo album da leader (il primo nel 2022, tutti su Fresh Sound New Talent), inciso in realtà a Mount Vernon (come innumerevoli altri, da un po' di anni a questa parte) nel marzo 2025 con un trio tutto a stelle e strisce. ...

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Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by La-Faithia White

by La-Faithia White
March 2, 2026

Jakob Dreyer originally studying piano from age four, switched to bass at age 14. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, Germany, where he studied both classical and jazz. He then studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory before later establishing himself as an in- demand sideman in Germany for ...

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Roots and Things

By Jakob Dreyer

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Fifth Floor; Constellation; Follower; June Tune; Land of 1000 Blue; With a Song In My Heart; Bodega; Downtime; Fight or Flight; MTA; Hold On; Room 1102; Roots and Things; Invisible; Big Apple; Choral Diner.

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Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 27, 2025

Bassist Jakob Dreyer searched for a new sound for his third album as a leader. He has, for his previous two releases, expressed his art via the standard quartet--sax, bass, drums and piano. For Roots and things, the piano is replaced by Sasha Berliner's vibraphone, joining the leader's other new-to-the-fold sidemen, saxophonist Tivon Pennicott and drummer ...