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Jakob Bro - Balladeering (2009) [Contemporary Jazz, Chamber Jazz]; FLAC (tracks)

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Jakob Bro - Balladeering (2009) [Contemporary Jazz, Chamber Jazz]; FLAC (tracks)

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Artist: Jakob Bro
Album: Balladeering
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Chamber Jazz
Label: Loveland Records
Released: 2009
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
  1. Weightless
  2. Evening Song
  3. VRAA
  4. Starting Point (Acoustic Version)
  5. Greenland
  6. Terrace Place
  7. Sort
  8. Starting Point (Electric Version)

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    Personnel:
  • Jakob Bro: guitar;
  • Bill Frisell: guitar;
  • Lee Konitz: alto saxophone;
  • Ben Street: bass;
  • Paul Motian: drums

Throughout the process of recording Balladeering, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was followed closely by filmmaker Sune Blicher, who documented the sessions, which took place at the famous Avatar studios in New York, capturing the poetry of the music in pregnant images. A recurrent motif in the movie is musicians engrossed in listening, and this particular framing also finds its way into the photos by Robert Lewis that grace the album, becoming a metaphor for the music itself and the spirit of creation.

More than anything, Bro could be termed "a listening musician." He creates his poetic compositions as open structures that invite interpretation. It is Bro's special gift that he is able to make music both melodically enchanting and not locked in predefined patterns.

The opener, "Weightless," is an example of how a simple melodic guitar figure is expanded and transcended into a translucent texture of sounds, with drummer Paul Motian's feathery touch working around the complex tapestry of guitar lines created by Bro and fellow guitarist Bill Frisell.

On "Evening Song," legendary saxophonist Lee Konitz joins the quartet and plays with a tone that seems to embody the beauty and pain of a lifetime, while "Terrace Place," with its mild dissonance and melancholy mood, finds the musicians speaking in a unified language where the guitarists' bended strings and loops are complemented by Konitz's circular blowing and Ben Street's elegant, almost invisible, bass patterns.

Balladeering is a true artwork, which brings out the best in the Participants; Konitz has not played better in some time. The album, however, is not about individual brilliance, but rather a proof of jazz as a listening art form that invites the unexpected and transcends egos. Such beauty is only possible if the compositions do not limit the potential of the music. Here, all possibilities are kept open and the result is a music that is infinitely rich in its democratic beauty.

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