JAZZ TRACK

JAKOB BRO

Returnings (ECM 2546)

Here Danish guitarist Jakob Bro allows his colleagues to maximise their creativity—and what colleagues! From the vanguard of Scandinavian jazz come trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg and drummer Jon Christensen, plus Thomas Morgan, the post-Charlie Haden bassist who says the most with the fewest notes. Bro and Mikkelborg’s pieces could be the folk-songs of wraiths: sketches that swirl and eddy like mist, awaiting the life-blood of improvisation. Mikkelborg’s trumpet comes closest to a primary colour,