The exploration of different musical formats has been one of the defining characteristics of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro for a long time. It makes perfect sense when you think about Bro's approach to ...

Throughout his career, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro has continued to refine and improve his musical expression. It has been a constant search that has taken him in many different directions, from the ...

Jakob Bro never had the urge to make an album with a great guitar solo on it. Early in his career, the forty-year-old Danish guitarist, who started out as a trumpet player, questioned the classic jazz ...

In 2002 Jakob Bro made a call that changed his life. The guitarist and composer, who was 24 at the time, had been asked to phone Paul Motian, a drummer who had made his name in the pioneering Bill ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple of new releases from the always-expanding ECM Records universe have been occupying a lot of space in my mind as of late. Both are contemplative and ...

Played by world-class personnel including Bill Frisell and the late, great alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, this 2014 set is full of subtle, spontaneous ideas When Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions ...

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 The 50 best albums of 2025 More on the ...

Named for a Norse goddess of virginity and plowing, guitarist Jakob Bro’s Gefion is less mythic, industrious, and untouched than its title suggests. Bro is a sort of slow-hand Bill Frisell (not so ...