There is no hurry to this music but there is great depth observed London Jazz News about
Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and
drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its ECM studio album of 2016 Streams
- which The New York Times lauded as ravishing - with what Bro calls a dream come true an
album recorded live in New York City over two nights at the Jazz Standard. Bay of Rainbows
rolls on waves of contemplative emotion as the three musicians explore five pieces from the
guitarist's catalog with the gorgeous Copenhagen a favorite reprised from Gefion Bro's 2015
ECM release. Others - Evening Song Red Hook and the volatile Dug - are recast intimately and
elastically for trio after having been initially documented by larger ensembles. Bookending Bay
of Rainbows are two versions of the richly melodic Mild the abstracted second rendering
illustrative of Bro and company's ability to push and pull the music into mesmerizing new
shapes onstage and in the moment.
