Thread of Jakob Bro (Danish jazz guitarist, maker of floating minimal ballads)

Following the thread, I'm really into Skuli Sverrisoson's duet albums with Bill Frisell and Oskar Gudjonsson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJyCl19QVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzXrsv0bTM

Which led me to Oskar Gudjonsson (sax player with a beautiful breathy tone) on this record by another Danish guitarist, Soren Dahl Jeppesen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4QMrbNik7I

And Jakob Bro is on his (Soren Dahl Jeppesen's) first record, 'Route One'. Now I'm curious why he hasn't released anything in a decade.

Oskar Gudjonsson is also in the very excellent but poorly named band ADHD with his (twin?) brother, who is a SHREDDER

Søren Dahl Jeppesen is also in Pauseland, maybe you'll like it:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2m11B2Ous4QUZqOg0BtZHw?si=HYIkd49UTf6Vkzex2DN8ZQ

Jakob Høyer and AC (drums and bass on the Jeppesen record and also Bro collaborators) are on the new Rasmus Oppenhagen Krogh which should hit the spot:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4gpT9ZylOKCpG4DvUIL2zi?si=g2UKjQTISfebZDIhwvVOhQ

From the recent tribute to Paul Motian album with Joe Lovano (and two drummers + two bassists):

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this is more bluesy than what you may be getting at but an essential Bro track for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrURYbgPKI
A.D. Buchanan's Armchair Gospel by Jakob Buchanan (trumpet and other horns) with Marilyn Mazur on percussion and Jonas Westergaard on bass

Good to know Soren Dahl Jeppesen is alive and well and playing in a band. Loving the Rasmus Krogh album so far, ty! Also love that he's clearly a Bro disciple (the credits on Bandcamp list the members as having played with Bro as a flex)..."the contemporary Nordic noir sound" indeed.

Unfortunately it's German given the remit of the thread, but I looked up Johannes Enders (who I love from the Tied + Tickled Trio) and ended up with this record of duets with a church organist. Somewhat similar vibe to the Skuli Sverrisson & Oskar Gudjonsson record -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCB8W3Uj8o

adjacent new single from Rasmus Oppenhagen with Emil de Waal on very light drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NjnGmTpFrI

Thanks, I listened to his album from last year a ton

Jakob Bro subbing for Bill Frisell on Ambrose Akinmusire's tour is confirmation that the Akinmusire/Frisell/Herlin Riley album ('Owl Song') is definitively part of this musical universe.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3DwTmAsSo9/?img_index=1

Using this as the 'ambient jazz' thread since I don't think we started a separate one. This Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi record is super nice (guitar/drums/sax). Ambient free improvisations, heavy on the textures, done very well.

https://daveharringtonmaxjaffepatrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/speak-moment

Actually ambient doesn't do it justice, there's some intensity, some desert music bits, some skronk, etc.

long run a the vanguard this week with a sick band ft brian blade

I saw some of a set by Bro at Big Ears last weekend, it was really lovely — and a kind of funny contrast to the Thurston Moore/John Paul Jones utter noisefest I had just exited a few minutes earlier.