Jakob Bro

“Balladeering-Time-December Song”, a trilogy by the award-winning composer Jakob Bro (born 1978) is a breathlessly beautiful work. Bro's restrained, floating compositions, have a peculiarly magical, alluring sound. He balances on a knife-edge between precision and arrangement, and an openness that gives the musicians exceptional freedom to move intuitively in the music and express themselves in the moment. This results in a brilliant delivery of his individual compositions and an intense, quivering interaction between the musicians. And what musicians! Bro has brought together an impressive team of some of the hottest names in jazz, including the icons Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian. Each album in the trilogy has won great acclaim as an independent work at home and abroad, and as a whole the trilogy is considered one of the key works of Danish jazz in the last decade.