(Contemporary Jazz) Jakob Dinesen - Keys & Strings (2CD) - 2019, MP3, 320 kbps

01. Homely
02. Hope
03. Thaya
04. Smuk
05. Hugso, Pt. 1
06. Free Eddie
07. Konge Og Bajads
08. First One

01. Spring is Here
02. Milton
03. Nicolai Smuk
04. God Bless the Child
05. Hugso, Pt. 2
06. Charlie Haden's Sound of Love
07. Dance on Roses
08. Everything Happens to Me

If Danish jazz has one genuine playboy, it must be 46-year old Jakob Dinesen – with a thick line under play. He and his sax and his good looks have romped around most of the world: Europe, Africa, Cuba, Thailand, USA, Japan and Australia. He has received just about every award a Danish musician can get – Grammys and soloist awards. When he saunters on stage, there are always a few moments of total concentration; then a crisp, searching sound emerges from the bell of his sax before starting up. Perhaps jumping straight into an improvisation, perhaps a loyal interpretation of whatever tune is on the agenda.
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Product Description
When the prominent Danish tenor saxophonist Jakob Dinesen's album Yasmin was released in 2014, it attracted more than just the usual attention. Danish jazz reviewers voted the album 'the best of the year' and described the release as 'ballad music with a magical sense of empathy... the most beautiful and most complete Danish jazz release in a long, long time' (Jazz Special). Audiences and venues welcomed the project with open arms and ears. Keys & Strings continues where Yasmin left off, in a repertoire consisting of standards and freshly written originals. Jakob Dinesen says that his goal has been to create a poetic universe and clean, honest, emotional, expressive statements in which the individual compositions have been allowed to determine the personnel. It's music where each song is a meditative journey without compromising the double-album's wholeness. It's music that almost physically surrounds the listener a saxophone breath that leaves room and space for the other participants, whether with a trio, quartet, strings, or symphony orchestra. 'Dino' (as he is known to friends) interprets the pieces with such a contagious calmness that in the liner notes Eddie Michel compares it to a musical version of the ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi, whose main principle is a quest for inner peace and mental and emotional balance. Jakob Dinesen is one of the most essential and versatile jazz musicians in Denmark almost hyperactive at times, always in demand, and with his horn never far from his side. It's only natural, then, that he has become the player tasked with reviving the role of the great ballad interpreter. His agile and expressive saxophone playing, paired with an ear-tickling rhythm section, a string quartet, or the otherworldly sonics from keyboards, makes Jakob Dinesen s Keys & Strings an exquisite listening experience.
Personnel:
Jakob Dinesen — tenor saxophone
Carsten Dahl — piano, percussion, string arrangement
Heine Hansen — piano, string arrangement
Darin Pantoomkomol — piano
Magnus Hjorth — piano, string arrangement
Nikolaj Torp Larsen — keyboards & effects, string arrangement
Anders Christensen — bass
Morten Ærø — drums
Jakob Høyer — drums
Andrea Gyarfas — violin
Karen Johanne Pedersen — violin
Sidsel Feher Most — viola
Samira Dayyani — cello
Josefine Dalsgaard — violin
Niels Levinsen: viola
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