Jakob Bro (DK) meets Midori Takada (JP)
With Jakob Bro, Midori Takada, Nils Petter Molvær, Marilyn Mazur & Anja Lechner (DE). Arranged by Jakob Bro and Jazz Club Loco.
External event: Jazz Club Loco moves into the Queen's Hall. Experience composer and guitarist Jakob Bro's in a new collaboration with Japanese percussion icon Midori Takada and a continuation of the sparkling interplay with trumpet player Palle Mikkelborg, drummer Marilyn Mazur and German cellist Anja Lechner.
Two-part concert night
You can experience Jakob Bro in a brand new collaboration with an international star in ambient music, Midori Takada. The main work is the quiet revolution of an album, Through The Looking Glass, from 1983. Here, Midori Takada weaves traditional Japanese and African percussion techniques into a modern ambient expression.
The second part of the evening will feature a quartet performing together for the first time in Denmark. Jakob Bro and Palle Mikkelborg created new music together on the highly acclaimed Jakob Bro album Returnings from 2018. Since then, they have performed with the drummer and percussionist Marilyn Mazur.
Nils Petter Molvær replaces Palle Mikkelborg in the quartet.
The last member of the quartet is German Anja Lechner, whose gifted cello playing has been heard on ECM releases with Dino Saluzzi and Rosamunde Quartet, among others. Lechner explores the tension between modernity and tradition with both Eastern and Western inspiration.
Jakob Bro
For over twenty years Jakob Bro has given us unforgettable musical experiences both on albums and on stage. In collaborations with Danish and international profiles, Jakob Bro has shown facets of his special melodic sense and fundamental aesthetic.
Midori Takada (JP)
As a composer and percussionist, Midori Takada has made her mark both with solo releases and in collaboration with others. Takada's principal work Through the Looking Glass was reissued in 2017 and hailed as an ambient minimalist masterpiece. Music magazine Pitchfork awarded the album 'Best new reissue', and it became the second best-selling release on Discogs, the internet's central vinyl marketplace. All this speaks to the enormous respect that surrounds Midori Takada, and the importance of a musical temperament that seems to recalibrate original ideas.
The event is set up by Jakob Bro and Jazz Club Loco.