Jakob Bro is a 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...

. Bro has never received any musical training besides short periods spent at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, the Berklee College of Music in Boston and New School University in New York. He is known outside the jazz world for his involvement with bands and artists such as Got You On Tape, Teitur

Teitur

Teitur is a male given name. In Old Norse the word means happy. In Modern Faroese, it is archaic but used as a male given name.-People:*Teitur Lassen , a musical artist from Faroe Islands....

 and Steffen Brandt

Steffen Brandt

Steffen Brandt is a Danish singer-songwriter and composer. Since 1981 he has been lead singer of rock group TV-2, as he also wrote both text and music to all the group's songs....

 and he has embarked on a successful career as a solo artist. He has recently joined a group formed by Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko

Tomasz Stanko

Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....

.

As leader

• Daydreamer – 2003
• Sidetracked – 2005
• Pearl River – 2007
• The Stars Are All New Songs
  The Stars Are All New Songs
  The Stars Are All New Songs is a 2008 studio album by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Jakob Bro#"Sound Flower"#"Origin"#"The Boy From Saladan"#"Romantics"#"Duke Ellington Boulevard"#"Waltzing Trees"...
  
  – 2008
• White Rainbow – 2008
• Who Said Gay Paree
  Who Said Gay Paree
  - Track listing :#"Come Rain Or Come Shine" #"So In Love" #"Love Me Tender" #"All Of Me" #"How Long Has This Been Going On?"...
  
  – 2008
• Balladeering
  Balladeering
  Balladeering is a 2009 studio album by Danish jazz guitarist Jakob Bro.The vinyl version of the album came with a DVD featuring the movie Weightless which documented the making of the album.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Jakob Bro...
  
  – 2009

As sideman

With Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

• Garden of Eden
  Garden of Eden (album)
  Garden of Eden is an album by jazz drummer Paul Motian recorded in 2004 and released on the ECM label in 2005.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Motian has been on a creative and compositional tear, and has been since the mid-'80s...
  
  (ECM, 2004)

With Tomasz Stańko

Tomasz Stanko

Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....

• Dark Eyes
  Dark Eyes (album)
  Dark Eyes is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...
  
  (ECM, 2009)

External links

• Jakob Bro at All About Jazz
  All About Jazz
  All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in Philadelphia in the United States.Founded by Michael Ricci in 1995, the Web-Site is maintained by a volunteer staff of writers, editors, and musicians, and provides coverage of all genres of jazz from...