Downbeat Editor’s Pick RETURNINGS March 2018
Jakob Bro
Returnings
(ECM)
By Frank Alkyer | Published March 2018
On Returnings, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro and his band take their time. Bro’s music is not about flash and bravura; it subtly …
Carl Prisen 2016
Jakob Bro receives the Carl Prize 2016 for his compositional work on Gefion.
Thank you Thomas Morgan, Jon Christensen, Manfred Eicher and ECM Records.
Danish Music Awards Jazz 2015
Gefion is Album Of The Year at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2015
Two nominations for DMA Jazz 2015
Gefion and Jakob Bro receives two nominations for DMA Jazz 2015. Record of the year and composer of the year
REVIEW ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“A fascinating reinvention of melodicism … a truly outstanding, pioneering album”
Nordic Councils Music Prize 2014
The trilogy: BALLADEERING (2009), TIME (2011) & DECEMBER SONG (2013) has been nominated for the Nordic Councils Music Prize 2014.
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Review in nycjazzrecord.com
Review of December Song in the March issue of nycjazzrecord.com
“Danish guitarist Jakob Bro is a musician for whom time, space and melody seem relative and related things. A luminous composer whose guitar …
Jazz Special
December Song is Danish Jazz Record of the year in Nordic magazine Jazz Special
ECM
On November 1st-3rd 2013 Jakob Bro finished the recordings of his ECM debut with Jon Christensen and Thomas Morgan.
Manfred Eicher was producing and the session was engineered by Jan Erik …
Marlbank Review / Stephen Graham
Released by the Aarhus-based label Loveland Records this beautiful drummer-less album recorded at Avatar in New York last December is dedicated to Paul Motian. It follows on from Time and …