Jakob Bro: Taking Turns (Uk)

On Taking Turns, recorded a decade ago at New York's Avatar Studio, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro meets a cross-generational group of highly independent improvisers. Lee Konitz, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, and Thomas Morgan inject their unique energies into a session that bypasses the conventions of an 'All-Star' band and emphasizes teamwork. Bro's expansive music provokes innovative responses from the musicians: an atmospheric impulse or fragments of subtle melodies open new paths to be explored together in an elegant manner. In the context of the recording, Jakob Bro stated, "In my compositions, it's about capturing a feeling or an impression, sketching it out, and then unfolding it during the recording.".