Jacob Karlzon III

Jacob Karlzon - piano, electronics
Hans Andersson - bass
Robert Mehmet Ikiz - drums
 

Jacob Karlzon’s music resides in the intersections where Scandinavian expressions such as space, melancholy and sensitivity blend with heat and passion.
He has been compared to such luminaries as Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Sweden’s own legendary pianist Jan Johansson.
His playing style boasts technical brilliance, great rhythmic and harmonic complexity and a perfect feeling for form.

Jacob has been showered with distinctions and prizes over the years. In 1997 he won the Jazz in Sweden award with the Malmö combo Blue Pages and was voted Newcomer of the Year by Swedish Radio’s annual jazz critic poll. In 2010 he was voted Musician of the Year by Swedish Radio’s annual jazz critic poll and was rewarded the Django d’Or as Contemporary Star of Jazz.

 
He is the pianist and head of one of the most exciting bands in Sweden. Connoisseurs and musicians alike are already well aware of his qualities on the black ebony and white ivory, or as a composer and musical director for famous colleagues but right now is the time Jacob Karlzon decided to take his talent into the spotlight with his own band.

As his current album "SHINE" impressively shows, Karlzon succeeds effortlessly to take the difficult art of the piano trio easily into higher speheres.

His compostions show a wide array of influences that could not be further apart: from Impressionism to ethno-sounds to US-Metal to contemporary, lyrical jazz from Scandinavia, he sculpts a collection of pulsating, mesmerizing and harmonic songs unheard of before Jacob Karlzon came along.