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Forever Young (Jacob Young album)

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Released
  
May 16, 2014

Studio
  
Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Forever Young (2014)
  
Arise (2014)

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
August 2013

Length
  
73:30

Release date
  
16 May 2014

Label
  
ECM Records

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Artists
  
Jacob Young, Marcin Wasilewski, Trygve Seim, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michał Miśkiewicz

Similar
  
Marcin Wasilewski albums, Jazz albums

Forever Young is an album by Norwegian guitarist and composer Jacob Young released on the ECM label in 2014.

Contents

Reception

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". 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". 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".

Track listing

All compositions by Jacob Young.

  1. "I Lost My Heart to You" - 8:29
  2. "Therese's Gate" - 6:44
  3. "Bounce" - 7:46
  4. "We Were Dancing" - 5:52
  5. "Sofia's Dance" - 7:33
  6. "Comeback Girl" - 7:01
  7. "1970" - 6:34
  8. "Beauty" - 6:11
  9. "Time Changes" - 9:32
  10. "My Brother"- 7:43

Personnel

  • Jacob Young - guitar
  • Trygve Seim - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Marcin Wasilewski - piano
  • Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
  • Michal Miskiewicz - drums
  • Production and design

  • Engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug
  • Design by Sascha Kleis
  • Liner photos by Summer Krinsky
  • Produced by Manfred Eicher
  • Songs

    1I Lost My Heart to You8:32
    2Therese's Gate6:48
    3Bounce7:49

    References

    Forever Young (Jacob Young album) Wikipedia