Jacob Bro

Jacob Bro

Jakob Bro (born April 11, 1978 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish jazz guitarist and composer .

Live and act

Bro began to play the guitar by himself; later he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus , the Berklee College of Music in Boston and The New School in New York. He also had lessons from Ben Street and Chris Cheek . Since then he has worked a. a. with Tomasz Stańko ( Dark Eyes ECM , 2009), Paul Motian ( Garden of Eden , ECM 2006), in Denmark with the bandapart (with pianist Søren Kjærgaard ) and Beautiful Day as well as saxophonist Jakob Dinesen . His debut album Daydreamer was released in 2003 , followed by Sidetracked ' (Loveland, 2006), which won two music awards in Denmark.

In 2008 the album Balladeering was created , which he recorded with Lee Konitz and Bill Frisell ; two more albums with this line-up followed. The director Sune Blicher created the documentary Weightless: A Recording Session with Jakob Bro from Bros New Yorker Session with Konitz and Frisell . He is also one of Jakob Buchanan's combos . He performed at the 2014 SWR NEWJazz Meeting with Melissa Aldana , Kirk Knuffke , Joe Martin , Jacob Sacks and RJ Miller .

stylistics

Characteristic of the jazz composer Bro are "minimalist, at the same time highly melodic compositions", said the music critic of the Viennese standard , Karl Gedlicka. Clear, elongated guitar tones result in a partly floating sound that is reminiscent of the guitarist Hubert Sumlin in its freedom from clichés . The band leader Bro prefers a low volume level in the trio line-up.

Discographic notes

• Sidetracked´ (Loveland, 2006) with Chris Speed , Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Jonas Westergaard and Rune Borup
• Pearl River (Loveland, 2007) with Ben Street, Paul Motian, Mark Turner and Chris Cheek
• The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1 (Loveland, 2008) with Kurt Rosenwinkel , Chris Cheek, Mark Turner , Jesper Zeuthen , Andrew D'Angelo , Ben Street and Paul Motian
• Who Said Gay Paree (2008) with Jakob Høyer and Anders Christensen
• Balladeering (Loveland, 2009) with Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Ben Street and Paul Motian
• Time (Loveland, 2011) with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan
• Bro / Knak (Loveland, 2012, 2 CDs), with Thomas Knak, David Virelles , Paul Bley , Kenny Wheeler , Bill Frisell u. v. a.
• Gefion ( ECM , 2015) with Thomas Morgan and Jon Christensen
• Streams (ECM, 2016) with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron
• Returnings (ECM, 2018) with Thomas Morgan , Jon Christensen and Palle Mikkelborg
• Bay of Rainbows (Live at the Jazz Standard , New York / 2017) (ECM, 2018), with Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron

Web links

Commons : Jakob Bro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jakob Bro's website
• Portrait at All About Jazz
• Review of the album Time in All About Jazz
• Jakob Bro at Discogs (English)
• Jakob Bro: Searching for Beauty Through Sound at All About Jazz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jakob Bro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
2. ↑ Jakob Bro: Beauty on quiet feet , Der Standard from September 22, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015