Jakob Bro

Jakob Bro, Nikara Warren, John Patitucci, Wayne Shorter, Alex Koo & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 25, 2025

Brooklyn, jny: Brussels, jny: Copenhagen and jny: Paris are the stations this playlist stops at before entering into zero gravity orbits with Wayne Shorter.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 NIKARA presents Black Wall Street “Inner City Blues" The Queen of Kings County (Switch Hit) 0:16 Host talks 9:05 Alex Koo feat. Ambrose Akinmusire “Hey Man, We Should Play Sometime" Blame It on My Chromosomes (WERF) 10:41 Host talks ...

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns

by Neil Duggan
December 14, 2024

Despite being recorded a decade ago, this album from Danish guitarist Jakob Bro sounds as fresh and contemporary as any 2024 release. Taking Turns was originally recorded in New York in 2014; the album release was delayed by ECM Records, who initially preferred to highlight Bro's trio work. The postponement proves fortuitous, as Bro's melodic compositions create expansive soundscapes that invite his all-star sextet to explore and improvise around his delicately rendered musical themes. Bro composed the seven ...

Palle Mikkelborg / Jakob Bro / Marilyn Mazur: Strands

by Chris May
December 27, 2023

Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream, or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream... like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel... and so on. There are more déjà vu moments in Strands than Marcel Proust could have waved a madeleine at. Three of the six tracks--"Gefion," “Lykaster" and “Oktober"--were first heard on guitarist Jakob Bro's ECM debut, Gefion (2015). Five of them--"Lykaster" and “Oktober" plus ...

Palle Mikkelborg / Jakob Bro / Marilyn Mazur: Strands

by Karl Ackermann
November 10, 2023

Strands brings together three of Denmark's finest artists, in their ancestral home. Palle Mikkelborg and Marilyn Mazur have a substantial history together, as does Jakob Bro but to a lesser extent. Bro penned five of the six compositions, one with Mikkelborg, who also contributed one of his pieces. In a storied career which dates to the '60s, Mikkelborg has recorded as a leader in only five previous projects. Nevertheless, his work with Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Gary Peacock, Terje Rypdal, ...

Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano: Once Around the Room - A Tribute To Paul Motian

by Angelo Leonardi
October 31, 2022

Il magistrale percorso da leader di Paul Motian, esploso negli anni ottanta nel trio con Joe Lovano e Bill Frisell, ha avuto significativi tributi a partire dal 2011, l'anno della sua scomparsa: ricordiamo lo String Choir di Joel Harrison, il collettivo Motian Sickness di Jeff Cosgrove, il solo piano di Russ Lossing (Drum Music) e quello successivo di Jean-Marc Padovani (Motian in Motion). Rispetto a questi, il tributo del collettivo guidato da Joe Lovano e Jakob Bro ...

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 and electric bassist Anders Christensen introduce Joe Lovano's aching call summoning the spirit to make known “As It Should Be," the first of the ...

Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo

by Mark Sullivan
August 24, 2021

After a break of a few years, Danish guitarist & composer Jakob Bro returns to ECM Records with a new trio. Bay Of Rainbows (ECM Records, 2018) was a live recording documenting his trio with double bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron, while Returnings (ECM Records, 2018) was a quartet reuniting Bro with Morgan and drummer Jon Christensen (who had played on his ECM debut) plus trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. The sound here almost splits the difference; Bro is joined ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

Jakob Bro (1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently leading a quartet with Mark Turner, Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan, a quartet with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan and Jorge Rossy and a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the spring of 2018 he released the highly acclaimed album Returnings through ECM Records. In October that same year his trio released the album ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

Jakob Bro (1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently leading a quartet with Mark Turner, Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan, a quartet with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan and Jorge Rossy and a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the spring of 2018 he released the highly acclaimed album Returnings through ECM Records. In October that same year his trio released the album ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group's album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music. “Motian's way of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group's album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music. “Motian's way of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today! The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more. Place ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jakob Bro

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Jakob Bro's birthday today!

The 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 musicians. These can be heard on the Motian Group\'s album Garden of Eden (ECM 2006), where Bro enters a musical soundscape whose intense and atmospheric expression he has carried over into his own music... Read more.

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