Second album by Norwegian/American guitarist Jacob Young features the working band first heard on “Evening Falls”, a group established to reflect the compatible styles and ideas of three generations of Norwegian jazz players, the age range of the band stretching from 28 (prizewinning trumpeter Matthias Eick) to 64 (veteran drumming genius Jon Christensen). For the group Young writes songs “with a lot of room for melodic interplay and improvisation”. This time we also get to hear more of Young’s highly attractive acoustic guitar playing, featured on six of the album’s cuts.
Sideways
Jacob Young, Mathias Eick, Vidar Johansen, Mats Eilertsen, Jon Christensen
- 1Sideways
06:41 - 2Time Rebel
05:14 - 3Slow Bo-Bo
05:07 - 4Near South End
05:26 - 5Out Of Night
10:16 - 6Hanna's Lament
04:02 - 7St. Ella
04:35 - 8Maybe We Can
06:53 - 9Wide Asleep
05:30 - 10Gazing At Stars
02:03
Der Mann ist ein Meister im Entwerfen elegischer Stimmungsbilder. … Sideways heißt das ans Herz gehende neue Album des Mannes, der übrigens auch HipHop-Acts produziert und Film- und Fernsehbilder mit Klängen versorgt. … Aufgenommen hat er es mit der identischen Besetzung wie sein Vorgänger-Album Evening Falls: Matthias Eick, Vidar Johansen, Mats Eilertsen und der legendäre Jon Christensen spielen mit Jacob Young eine Musik, die feierlich, die hymnisch klingt, von wunderschönen Voicings durchzogen ist und Jazz mit Folkloristischem koloriert.
Ssirus Pakzad, Jazzthing
Christensen is perfect in this setting and in certain ways defines this record. Its pace is slow, stately and impressionistic and, along with the excellent Eilertsen, the drummer provides its pulse and sense of movement. Young himself relies heavily on acoustic guitar - his electric playing recalls Metheny – and that, and his concern with timbre and texture, makes for some beautiful music. … A fine record and one that bodes well for Young’s future work.
Duncan Heining, Jazzwise
Jazz für ganz feine Ohren: Dieser Gitarrist schreibt und spielt wunderbar lyrische Musik, die sich mit zwei Blas-Instrumenten, Gitarre, Bass und Schlagzeug in faszinierenden Stimmführungen entfaltet. Es ist Jazz. Es ist Kammermusik. Es ist Musik aus elegischen Klängen voller Ausdruckskraft. Und nicht zuletzt: Es ist packende Ensemble-Musik – in der der das Ganze die Hauptrolle spielt und der Leader sein Instrument dennoch verblüffend vielfältig zur Geltung bringt.
Roland Spiegel, Bayern 4 Klassik
Although this is a band that depends on the interplay between each musician it is the insidious strength of Young’s compositions that provide the thread of continuity. … Mathias Eick and Vidar Johansen evoke memories of Miles and Coltrane in the way they vie with one another trading lines, feeding ideas back and forth, always searching, always striving… Young solos seldom, and when he does it is on acoustic, but his strength lays in the management of the rhythm. His relationship with Eilertsen and Christensen seems telepathic… On the evidence of Sideways, Young and his band have a very healthy future before them.
Hugh Gregory, Jazzreview
The compositions bring out the best from what has turned out to be a successful working band, as the harmonically astute and spaciously linear leader sets up one patient poetic atmosphere after another and the youngster Eick and Eilertsen dove-tail beautifully with Oslo veterans Johansen and Christensen. …Excellent, subtly energising music and already a candidate for Record of the Year time.
Michael Tucker, Jazz Journal
Although this is a band that depends on the interplay between each musician it is the insidious strength of Young’s compositions that provide the thread of continuity. …
On the evidence of Sideways, Young and his band have a very healthy future before them.
Hugh Gregory, Jazzreview
Young’s cool use of atmosphere/ambience is as crucial as the interplay and improvisation between himself, his producer and his team of musical collaborators. … Each composition feels as if it’s filling its own room and sniffing it own rarefied breeze… Yet the record’s entirety is fluid, even folksy in an oddly and vaguely European fashion. Most of this comes down to the tender interplay between Young and Eick. They play upon each other’s heartstrings.
A.D. Amorosi, JazzTimes
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