Forever Young (Jacob Young album)
Forever Young | ||||
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Studio album by Jacob Young | ||||
Released | May 16, 2014 | |||
Recorded | August 2013 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo | |||
Genre | Improvised music, Jazz | |||
Length | 73:30 | |||
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ECM ECM 2366 | |||
Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
Jacob Young chronology | ||||
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Forever Young is an album by Norwegian guitarist and composer Jacob Young released on the ECM label in 2014.[1][2]
Reception
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
All About Jazz | [4] |
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek says "Young's playing throughout offers great technical facility, but he is a democratic bandleader, never showy. Forever Young stands out in his catalog because it reveals an almost immeasurable growth in his compositional skills since 2007. These tunes inspire this fine band; they play as if they'd been playing them for ages".[3] In JazzTimes John Murph wrote "The airy arrangements afford Young plenty of room to showcase his comely, full-bodied sound and his effortless manner of unraveling melodically cogent improvisations. His gifts as a composer are on full display as well, and he demonstrates an intriguing way of enveloping pop and rock motifs into soft-hued modern jazz".[5] On All About Jazz John Kelman noted "Forever Young demonstrates an ability to simmer in a way that his previous ECM recordings did not. It also represents a first outing by a quintet with plenty of potential; hopefully six years won't have to pass before this intimate yet delicately expressionistic quintet can once again reconvene".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Jacob Young
- "I Lost My Heart to You" - 8:29
- "Therese's Gate" - 6:44
- "Bounce" - 7:46
- "We Were Dancing" - 5:52
- "Sofia's Dance" - 7:33
- "Comeback Girl" - 7:01
- "1970" - 6:34
- "Beauty" - 6:11
- "Time Changes" - 9:32
- "My Brother"- 7:43
Personnel
- Jacob Young - guitar
- Trygve Seim - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Marcin Wasilewski - piano
- Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
- Michal Miskiewicz - drums
Credits
- Engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug
- Design by Sascha Kleis
- Liner photos by Summer Krinsky
- Produced by Manfred Eicher
References
- ↑ Jacob Young discography, accessed October 24, 2016
- ↑ ECM Releases, accessed October 24, 2016
- 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Forever Young – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
- 1 2 Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, accessed October 24, 2016
- ↑ Murph, J., JazzTimes Review, June 2014 - accessed October 24, 2016