About

With his rich, warm tone, Danish guitarist and composer Jakob Bro makes expansive, forward-thinking jazz that's atmospheric and experimental while still being grounded in tradition. A former member of Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band and Tomasz Stanko's Dark Eyes quintet, Bro's playing is informed by smoky, harmonically rich modernist jazz ballads. That said, he is not unfamiliar with aggressive, distortion pedal angularities that shift the calm center of his folk-inflected pastoral tunes to reflect dissonance and tension.

His use of loops and effects also sets him apart from many of his jazz-guitar playing peers. Taking Turns, recorded in New York’s Avatar Studio a decade ago, finds Bro joined by a multi-generational cast of improvisers, highly distinctive players all. Lee Konitz, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran and Thomas Morgan lend their energies to a session that bypasses conventions of the “all-star” band and puts the emphasis on teamwork. Bro’s space-conscious music encourages fresh responses: an atmospheric hint, or a fragment of gentle melody, opening up new trails to explore. My compositions are about catching a glimpse of a feeling, sketching it down and then unfolding it as we record”, said Jakob Bro at the time. — via Label

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Label: ECM Records
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 2025
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz

File under: ECM Records
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