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Balladeering (album)
''Balladeering'' is a 2009 studio album by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro. ''Balladeering'' is the first part of a trilogy which includes ''Time'' (2011) and ''December Song'' (2013). The trilogy was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2014. The vinyl version of the album came with a DVD featuring the movie ''Weightless'' which documented the making of the album. Track listing All tracks composed by Jakob Bro #"Weightless" (5:32) #"Evening Song" (4:40) #"Vraa" (7:15) #"Starting Point / Acoustic Version" (4:40) #"Greenland" (7:18) #"Terrace Place" (5:01) #"Sort" (4.00) #"Starting Point / Electric Version" (6:08) Personnel *Jakob Bro – guitar *Lee Konitz – alto saxophone *Bill Frisell – guitar *Ben Street – bass guitar *Paul Motian – drums References Balladeering A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Bro
Jakob Bro (born April 11, 1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer. Career Bro leads a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the fall of 2016 the trio released the album ''Streams'' ( ECM). Bro also works with Palle Mikkelborg and Bro/Knak, a collaboration with the Danish electronica producer Thomas Knak. Bro is a former member of the Paul Motian Band (''Garden of Eden'', ECM, 2006) and a member of Tomasz Stanko's Dark Eyes Quintet ('' Dark Eyes'', ECM, 2009). Bro has worked with Paul Bley, Chris Cheek, Andrew D'Angelo, Bill Frisell, George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Thomas Morgan, Paul Motian, Oscar Noriega, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Speed, Ben Street, Mark Turner, David Virelles, and Kenny Wheeler. Awards and honors In 2016 and 2013 Bro received The Carl Prize Jazz Composer of the Year for the albums ''Gefion'' and ''Bro/Knak''. From 2003–2016 he received six Danish Music Awards: three for Danish Jazz Album of the Year (''Gefion'', ''Balladeering'' and ''Sidetracked''), two f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Are All New Songs
''The Stars Are All New Songs'' is a studio album by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro. Track listing All tracks composed by Jakob Bro #"Sound Flower" #"Origin" #"The Boy From Saladan" #"Romantics" #"Duke Ellington Boulevard" #"Waltzing Trees" #"Reconstructing A Dream" #"Drumscapes" #"Eugeine" Line up *Bill Frisell - Guitar *Kurt Rosenwinkel - Guitar (7) *Jakob Bro - Guitar * Chris Cheek - Tenor Sax * Mark Turner - Tenor Sax * Jesper Zeuthen - Alto Sax *Andrew D'Angelo - Bass Clarinet *Ben Street - Bass *Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ... - Drums References 2008 albums Jakob Bro albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (Jakob Bro Album)
''Time'' is a studio album by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro. The album is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Balladeering (2009) and ''December Song'' (2013). The trilogy was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2014. Track listing #"Nat" (4:39) #"Cirkler" (7:27) #"A Simple Premise" (3:06) #"Swimmer (5:22) #"Northern Blues" (7:13) #"Fiordlands" (4:15) #"Yellow" (6.17) #"Smaa Dyr" (3:32) Personnel *Jakob Bro – composer, producer, guitar *Bill Frisell – guitar *Lee Konitz – sax * Thomas Morgan – bass References {{Authority control Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ... Jakob Bro albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Jazz
''All About Jazz'' is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, ''Jazz Near You'', about local concerts and events. The Jazz Journalists Association voted ''All About Jazz'' Best Website Covering Jazz for thirteen consecutive years between 2003 and 2015, when the category was retired. In 2015, Ricci said the site received a peak of 1.3 million readers per month in 2007. Another source said that the site has over 500,000 readers around the world. Ricci was born in Philadelphia. He heard classical and jazz from his father's music collection. He played trumpet and went to his first jazz concert when he was eight. With a background in computer programming, he combined his interest in jazz and the internet by creating the ''All About Jazz'' website in 1995. The website publishes reviews, interviews, and articles pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politiken
''Politiken'' is a leading Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1884 and played a role in the formation of the Danish Social Liberal Party. Since 1970 it has been independent of the party but maintains a liberal stance. It now runs an online newspaper, ''politiken.dk''. The paper's design has won several international awards, and a number of its journalists have won the Cavling Prize. History and profile ''Dagbladet Politiken'' was founded on 1 October 1884 in Copenhagen by Viggo Hørup, Edvard Brandes and Hermann Bing. Hørup and Brandes formed the newspaper after being fired as editors from the ''Morgenbladet'' over political differences. Hørup led the paper as editor-in-chief for fifteen years from its start in 1884. In 1904, the tabloid ''Ekstra Bladet'' was founded as a supplement to ''Politiken ''and was later spun off as an independent newspaper on 1 January 1905. The paper established its present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaffa (magazine)
''Gaffa'' (stylized as ''GAFFA'') is a free Nordic music magazine with local editions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. ''Gaffa'' is Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has 320,000 print readers and 750,000 online readers each month. The name ''gaffa'' comes from gaffer tape, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of the music community together". History and profile ''Gaffa'' has been published on a monthly basis since 1983. The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions, record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers. It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules. ''Gaffa'''s website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996. Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge. In 2008 ''Gaffa'' launched GAFFA live, a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Council Music Prize
The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded annually by NOMUS, the Nordic Music Committee. Every two years it is awarded for a work by a living composer. In the intervening years it is awarded to a performing musician or ensemble. The Nordic Music Committee (NOMUS) The Nordic Council has four art committees: *The Nordic Literature and Library Committee (NORDBOK) *The Nordic Music Committee (NOMUS) *The Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts (NordScen) *The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) NOMUS consists of two delegates from each of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland) and observers from the three areas with self-rule (Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands ). NOMUS awards grants to promote musical co-operation in the Nordic Region; subsidizes commissioned works, musical performances, seminars, conferences and educational courses; and acts as the secretariat and jury of the Nordic Council Music Prize. The Nord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Konitz
Leon Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) was an American composer and alto saxophonist. He performed successfully in a wide range of jazz styles, including bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Konitz's association with the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s includes participation in Miles Davis's ''Birth of the Cool'' sessions and his work with pianist Lennie Tristano. He was one of relatively few alto saxophonists of this era to retain a distinctive style, when Charlie Parker exerted a massive influence. Like other students of Tristano, Konitz improvised long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another. Other saxophonists were strongly influenced by Konitz, such as Paul Desmond and Art Pepper. He died during the COVID-19 pandemic from complications brought on by the disease. Biography Early life Konitz was born on October 13, 1927, in Chicago. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Frisell
William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a participant in the Downtown Scene in New York City where he formed a long working relationship with composer and saxophonist John Zorn. He was also a longtime member of veteran drummer Paul Motian's groups from the early 1980s until 2011 (upon Motian’s death). Since the late 1990s, Frisell's output as a bandleader has also integrated prominent elements of folk, country, rock ‘n’ roll and Americana. He has six Grammy nominations, and one win. Biography Early life and career Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, but spent most of his youth in the Denver, Colorado, area. He studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, but by his teens was more interested in guitar. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Street
Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist. Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists, including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Michael Eckroth, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, Aaron Parks, and Adam Cruz, among others. He studied the acoustic bass with former Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous. He is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street and is a native of Maine. Discography With Anthony Coleman * '' Morenica'' (Tzadik, 1998) * '' Our Beautiful Garden is Open'' (Tzadik, 2002) With Kurt Rosenwinkel * '' The Enemies of Energy'' ( Verve, 2000) * '' The Next Step'' (Verve, 2001) * '' Heartcore'' (Verve, 2003) With Jakob Bro * '' The Stars Are All New Songs'' (Loveland, 2008) * '' Balladeering'' (Loveland, 2009) With Andrew Cyrille * ''The Declaration of Musical Independence'' (ECM, 2016) * '' The News'' (ECM, 2021) With Andrew Cyrille, Søren Kjœrgaard * ''Optics'' (Ilk, 2008) * ''Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later was a regular in pianist Keith Jarrett's band for about a decade (c. 1967–1976). Motian began his career as a bandleader in the early 1970s. Perhaps his two most notable groups were a longstanding trio of guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano, and the Electric Bebop Band where he worked mostly with younger musicians on interpretations of bebop standards. Biography Motian was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He was of Armenian descent. After playing guitar in his childhood, Motian began playing the drums at age 12, eventually touring New England in a swing band. During the Korean War he joined the Navy. Motian became a professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
