Jacob Young, Mats Eilertsen, Audun Kleive – Eventually (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:46 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Jacob Young’s fourth leader-recording for ECM not only presents the guitarist’s first pass a the guitar trio format, but moreover offers a broader view of his compositional pallet, as he, bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Audun Kleive explore a wide variety of pulsations, temperaments and styles, all tied together by Jacob’s always melodic embrace.
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Siril Malmedal Hauge & Jacob Young – Chasing Sunsets (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:16 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oslo Session Recordings
The critically acclaimed duo made their debut in 2018 with the album Last things on Oslo Session Recordings, which received international praise. This is the duo’s second album. Since their debut they’ve had the chance to develop their collaboration as songwriters and performers through extensive touring and/or concert performances at festivals and clubs in places like Japan, South Korea, USA, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Norway.
Read moreJacob Young, Siril Malmedal Hauge – Last Things (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:54 minutes | 422 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oslo Session Recordings
This stand-out, intimate jazz-duo recording features the haunting vocals of Siril Malmedal Hauge – a 25 year old sensation from the small island, Sula, on the Norwegian North-West peninsula. And the guitar artistry of Jacob Young, internationally known and critically acclaimed for his work with his groups on three releases for ECM Records. If you like Melody Gardot, Eva Cassidy, Ella Fitzgerald or Chet Baker – chances are you will dig this too.
“Last Things” is an album with a mix of original songs, covers and standards – all from different popular music areas and different times in music history. Songs from genres as diverse as the epic 1970´s rock ballad “Little Wing” – a cover of Jimi Hendrix´tune – to the Cole Porter masterpiece “So In Love” from the 1950´musical “Kiss me Kate”.
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Jacob Young – Forever Young (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:55 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Forever Young features melodically inventive, harmonically sophisticated and rhythmically alert jazz, composed by Norwegian-American guitarist Jacob Young and played by a spirited team of contemporaries. Young and saxophonist Trygve Seim are friends since school days, and have been heard on the Norwegian jazz scene in numerous combinations and contexts over the years. They are joined on this album by the Polish pianist, bassist and drummer widely known as the Marcin Wasilewski Trio, a group with its own 20 years playing history.
This recording marks Jacob Young’s first alliance with the Poles, although Trygve Seim has worked extensively with Wasilewski and bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz while all three were members of Manu Katché’s touring band. Forever Young draws on both rich, shared histories and in-the-moment creativity.
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Joshua Trinidad, Jacob Young, Ståle Liavik Solberg – In November (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:03 minutes | 426 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RareNoiseRecords
Denver-based trumpeter-composer Joshua Trinidad makes a strikingly original statement on his RareNoise Records debut, In November. Recorded in Giske, Norway, this highly evocative trio outing features the adventurous Norwegian guitarist-composer and ECM recording artist Jacob Young and drummer Stale Liavik Solberg, a central figure on Oslo’s improvising music scene. Brimming with deep and winding lyricism, Trinidad’s elegiac seventh album as a leader is a compelling mix of bold long tones on trumpet, atmospheric guitaristry, fluid melodic invention and daring group improv, all delivered with rare authority by the three intrepid improvisers. From the minor key rubato opener “Beside” to the melancholy soundscape “Bell (Hymn)” to a darkly entrancing “The Attic” and the stirring title track, Trinidad and his empathetic crew of deep listeners show respect toward space and silence on these spellbinding noirish numbers.
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