Jakob Bro

Jakob Bro ( born April 11, 1978 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish jazz guitarist and composer.

Life and work

Bro began self-taught to play the guitar; Later he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and The New School in New York. He also took lessons with Ben Street and Chris Cheek. Since then he has worked among others with Tomasz Stanko ( Dark Eyes ECM, 2009), Paul Motian ( Garden of Eden, ECM 2006), in Denmark with the formations Band Apart ( with pianist Søren Kjærgaard ) and Beautiful Day and saxophonist Jakob Dinesen. In 2003, his debut album Daydreamer, followed by Sidetracked ' ( Loveland, 2006), which won two music awards in Denmark.

2009 was the album Balladeering, which he recorded with Lee Konitz and Bill Frisell. The director Sune Blicher documented Bros New York session with Konitz and Frisell in the film Weightless: A Recording Session with Jakob Bro.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Sidetracked ' ( Loveland, 2006) with Chris Speed ​​, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Jonas Westergaard, Rune Borup
• Pearl River ( Loveland, 2007) with Ben Street, Paul Motian, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek
• The Stars Are All New Songs Vol 1 ( Loveland, 2008) with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Jesper Zeuthen, Andrew D' Angelo, Ben Street, Paul Motian
• Who Said Gay Paree (2008) with Jacob Høyer, Anders Christensen
• Balladeering ( Loveland, 2009) with Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Ben Street, Paul Motian
• Time ( Loveland, 2011) with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan