Jacob Fischer is a self-taught Danish Jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...

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Since 1992 he has been a member of the Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen is a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". Asmussen grew up in a musical family, starting violin lessons at age 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin great Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style...

 Quartet

Quartet

In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:...

and he has founded his own Jacob Fischer Trio where he plays alongside Hugo Rasmussen

Hugo Rasmussen

Hugo Rasmussen is a Danish bassist. Rasmussen is best known for his 1978 album Sweets To The Sweet. Sweets To the Sweet was re-released in 2001 on Danish label Music Mecca.-Biography:...

 on bass and Janus Templeton on drums. He is a member of Christina von Bülows trio and Kristian Jørgensens Quartet.

Biography

Jacob Fischer started to play at the age of 14 and Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...

, B.B. King and Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...

 were among his first inspirations. Fischer had his debut at the age of 17 when he played at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival

Copenhagen Jazz Festival

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. Around the same time he also won a competition arranged by national Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske, previously known as Berlingske Tidende , is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen...

 with a band which included Chris Minh Doky

Chris Minh Doky

Chris Minh Doky is a Vietnamese-Danish bassist living in Copenhagen and New York City. Though Doky has worked in many genres, his main area of music is jazz...

 on bass and Nikolaj Hess

Nikolaj Hess

Nikolaj Hess is a Danish jazz pianist, composer, producer and arranger.-Biography:Nikolaj Hess won the gold prize in the "Berlingske Tidendes" competition of non-classical music in Copenhagen and won the category for best European jazz piano player under 25, in the RAI competition in Rome...

 on piano. This led to the first engagement at the legendary jazz club Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

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In 1992 he became a member of Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen is a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". Asmussen grew up in a musical family, starting violin lessons at age 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin great Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style...

 quartet. Since then he has played in numerous ensembles and with the entire Danish jazz elite, including Allan Botschinsky

Allan Botschinsky

Allan Botschinsky is a Danish jazz trumpeter.Botschinsky's father played bassoon professionally. He began on trumpet at age 11 and at 14 began studying at the Royal Danish Conservatorium...

, Jesper Thilo

Jesper Thilo

Jesper Thilo is a Danish jazz musician, mainly known as a tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist and clarinetist. He is considered to be one of the top European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period...

, Finn Ziegler, Bob Rockwell

Bob Rockwell

Bob Rockwell is a jazz saxophonist. He was born in the United States but emigrated to Denmark in 1983, where he has lived since.-Biography:...

 and Radioens bigband. He has also formed duos with the guitarist Doug Raney

Doug Raney

Doug Raney is an American jazz guitarist. He is the son of Jimmy Raney.Raney began his career in his father's band, with Al Haig, at the age of 18. He later played in a duo with his father...

 and the bassists Hugo Rasmussen

Hugo Rasmussen

Hugo Rasmussen is a Danish bassist. Rasmussen is best known for his 1978 album Sweets To The Sweet. Sweets To the Sweet was re-released in 2001 on Danish label Music Mecca.-Biography:...

 and Mads Vinding

Mads Vinding

Mads Vinding is a Danish jazz double-bassist.He is a Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen...

. He has also played with international jazz musicians such as Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

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, Art Farmer

Art Farmer

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, Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...

, Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...

, John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie (guitarist)

John Abercrombie is an American jazz guitarist, whose work often explores jazz fusion and post bop. Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker...

, Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton (musician)

Scott Hamilton is a jazz tenor saxophonist, born in 1954 and associated with swing and mainstream jazz.-Biography:He emerged in the 1970s and at the time he was considered to be one of the few musicians of real talent who carried the tradition of the classic jazz tenor saxophone in the style of...

, Adam Nussbaum

Adam Nussbaum

-Biography:Nussbaum grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut and started to play drums at age 12 after studying piano for five years. He also played bass and saxophone as a teenager. He moved to New York City in 1975 to attend The Davis Center for Performing Arts at City College...

, Putte Vickman, Jan Allan

Jan Allan

Jan Bertil Allan is a Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer. He is a winner of the Grammis awards, the Swedish equivalent to the Grammys. He has also composed for several films such as The Adventures of Picasso ....

 and Jerry Bergonzi

Jerry Bergonzi

Jerry Bergonzi is a jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator. Bergonzi received a B.A. Degree in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is the founder of Not Fat Records....

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Awards

• 1992 JASA-prisen
• 1987 Sørens Penge
• 1996 Ben Webster Prize
  Ben Webster Prize
  The Ben Webster Prize is an annual jazz award set up by the Ben Webster Foundation to honour Danish and American Jazz musicians as well as other professionals active in the promotion of jazz in those countries. The American jazz musician Ben Webster spent his last ten years in Copenhagen, Denmark,...
  
  
• 1998 Palæbars jazzpris
• Django d'Or
• 2003 Jazzpris Silkeborg