Jakob Bro

With his rich, warm tone, Danish guitarist and composer Jakob Bro makes expansive, forward-thinking jazz that's atmospheric and experimental while still being grounded in tradition. A former member of Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band and Tomasz Stanko's Dark Eyes quintet, Bro's playing is informed by smoky, harmonically rich modernist jazz ballads. That said, he is not unfamiliar with aggressive, distortion pedal angularities that shift the calm center of his folk-inflected pastoral tunes to reflect dissonance and tension. His use of loops and effects also sets him apart from...