JAKOB DINESEN
Genres: Post Bop, Hard Bop, World Fusion, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Afro-Cuban Jazz, 21st Century Modern • Denmark

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 read more...