artist : Jacob Karlzon 3
title : The Big Picture
label : Stunt Records
cat# : STUCD11032
genre : Jazz
street date : 2011-03-21
tracks : 9
bitrate : 232 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 90.84 mb
source : CD
type : Retail
url : http://jacobkarlzon.com
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The trio consists of Jacob Karlzon, Hans Andersson and Jonas Holgersson.
Jacob KarlzonÆs music resides in the intersections where Scandinavian
expressions such as space, melancholy and sensitivity blend with heat and
passion.
Jacob has been compared to such luminaries as Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans
and SwedenÆs own legendary pianist Jan Johansson. His playing style boasts
technical brilliance, great rhythmic and harmonic complexity and a perfect
feeling for form.
Jacob Karlzon was born 1970 i J÷nk÷ping, Sweden and is already a jazz
veteran. His first album came out in 1992, since then he has recorded five
more in his own name, and featured on at least 40 others. He has been
showered with distinctions and prizes over the years. In 1997 he won the
Jazz in Sweden award with the Malm÷ combo Blue Pages and was voted
Newcomer of the Year by Swedish RadioÆs annual jazz critic poll. In 2010
he was voted Musician of the Year by Swedish RadioÆs annual jazz critic
poll and was rewarded the Django dÆOr as Contemporary Star of Jazz.
Since 1999, he has been director of music and composer for singer Viktoria
TolstoyÆs band, with which he has recorded four albums, the latest being
My Russian Soul. He is also a key member of Swedish trumpet star Peter
AsplundÆs quartet, with which Jacob was heard most recently on the
critically acclaimed As Knights Concur. In 2007, the band û including
Jacob û won both the ôGyllene Skivanö award and the Manifest Gala award
with LochielÆs Warning.
In addition to these greats, Jacob has played with many other leading jazz
musicians: Billy Cobham, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Berg, Tim Hagans, Jeff
Ballard, Norma Winstone, Cµcilie Norby, Nils Landgren, Silje Nergaard,
Rigmor Gustafsson, Lina Nyberg, Trine-Lise Vµring, Anders Bergcrantz
(Jacob featured on BergcrantzÆs ôGyllene Skivanö winner About Time) and
Putte Wickman, to name but a few. For the past few years, Jacob has also
been a pianist in the Tolvan Big Band, one of SwedenÆs top big bands.
Solopiano
Jacob released his first solo piano album, this time on Caprice Records,
in the autumn of 2008. The third volume in a new series of improvised
piano music, Improvisational three had Jacob interpret and be inspired by
French composer Maurice Ravel. The album was enthusiastically received by
the critics.
The most important forum for Jacob, however, is his own trio. Their first
album, Take Your Time, was released on the Dragon label in 1996, when his
band comprised Mattias Svensson on bass and Peter Danemo on drums. He
followed this two years later with Going Places on Prophone, and again
four years later (2002) with Today on the same label. In 2003 he released
his highly lauded Big5, by which time his trio had become a quintet, with
Peter Asplund on trumpet and Karl-Martin Almqvist on sax.
From solo piano to quintet
2009 Caprice Records released the sixth album in JacobÆs own name. The
album Heat consists mainly of his own compositions, but also includes
numbers by the nu metal outfit KoRn and Maurice Ravel, along with a track
from Peter JacksonÆs The Lord of the Rings. The lineup is here different,
with Hans Andersson on bass and Jonas Holgersson on drums. A couple of
tracks also feature his old friends Peter Asplund and Karl-Martin
Almqvist.
Since 2009 the trio with Hans Andersson and Jonas Holgersson has been
touring in Sweden, Norway Danmark , Lithuania, Germany and UK playing in
clubs and festivals for raving audiences and critics.
http://jacobkarlzon.com
http://www.sundance.dk
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01 The Big Picture 5:16
02 Bakersfield Revisited 6:38
03 Maniac 8:19
04 On The Horizon 7:25
05 In God's Country 6:35
06 Newbie 5:56
07 Ma Salama 5:48
08 Utopian Folksong 5:55
09 At The End Of The Day 2:07
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