Little North
Any conversation about the piano trio in the European jazz of recent
decades will inevitably touch on the topic of the “Nordic sound”.
The
leading exponents of it - Jan Johansson, Bobo Stenson, Bugge Wesseltoft,
Esbjörn Svensson…- have not just drawn on the vast palette of American
jazz, they are also musicians steeped in the songs of their homelands, as
well as in the European classical music canon, and contemporary pop.
And whereas their music may be known for stillness and spaciousness,
it is no wallflower: the Nordic piano trio has a huge audience worldwide,
and its influence on subsequent generations of musicians has been incalculable
and profound.
The Danish piano trio “Little North” - pianist Benjamin Nørholm Jacobsen,
bassist Martin Brunbjerg Rasmussen and drummer Lasse Jacobsen - has
what it takes to open up a new and significant chapter in this story.
With
their strong feeling for melody, harmony and dramaturgy, these three
young musicians create a cinematic sound, music which can at times be
melancholic, at others enchantingly beautiful, and which is full of twists
and turns.
