Jacob Karlzon
Jacob Karlzon is an award-winning Swedish jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. His playing style cuts across post-bop and vanguard jazz to embrace lyrical forms of improvisation, wedding traditional forms of folk and classical music to ambient, pop, rock, metal, and electronic musics. His attitude toward exploration was showcased on early piano trio outings such as 1996's Take Your Time!, 1998's Going Places, and 2002's Today. His debut quintet set, Big 5, and 2008's solo outing Improvisational Three (Piano Improvisations Inspired by Maurice Ravel), established his reputation as a genre-crossing innovator on the European continent. Karlzon refers to his style as '"technorganic," balancing open ideas in a genre-crossing approach, harmonically, texturally, and tonally.
He has recorded and played extensively with vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy and jazz musicians ranging from Norma Winstone to Benjamin Koppel. After Karlzon's 2009 quintet outing Heat, he was named Swedish Jazz Musician of the Year in 2010. In 2011 and 2012 he returned to exploratory trios on The Big Picture and More. In 2013 he was a co-billed guest with drummer Peter Johannesson, guitarist Max Schultz, and bassist Dan Berglund on the seminal Cause and Effect. He and Tolstoy delivered the widely heralded duo set A Moment of Now the same year. After signing to Warner International, he issued 2016's Now leading an acoustic trio, then composed and issued the digital-only solo electro-acoustic offering Relaxing Gaming Music: After Game in 2018. He wed these approaches for his acclaimed, best-selling trio outing Open Waters in 2019.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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A Moment of Now
Viktoria Tolstoy, Jacob Karlzon
Jazz - Released by ACT Music on Oct 25, 2013
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Cause and Effect
Jacob Karlzon, Johannesson, Schultz & Berglund
Jazz - Released by Prophone on Mar 5, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Open Waters
Jazz - Released by WM Germany on Aug 30, 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Humanity
Benjamin Koppel, Jacob Karlzon
Jazz - Released by Cowbell Music on Jul 7, 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Relaxing Gaming Music: After Game
New Age - Released by X5 Music Group on Apr 21, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Jacob Karlzon - Piano (Maurice Ravel - Jacob Karlzon)
Classical - Released by Caprice on Jan 9, 2009
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Human Factor (feat. Jeff Ballard)
Morten Ramsbøl, Hans Ulrik, Jacob Karlzon
Jazz - Released by Music Mecca on Jan 1, 2005
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Nyberg, Lina / Karlzon, Jacob: Temper
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Prophone on Dec 16, 1997
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Satch as such (Peter Asplund)
Peter Asplund, Peter Asplund Orchestra, Rigmor Gustafsson, Magnum Coltrane Price, Hans Andersson, Jacob Karlzon
Jazz - Released by Sittel Records on Jan 1, 2000
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Free Improvisation IV
Pop - Released by Naxos Sweden - Caprice on Jan 26, 2018
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Himmelens Hatt
Zara Tellander, Lisen Rylander Löve, Jacob Karlzon, Johnannes Lundberg, Johann Bjorklund, Thomas Gunillasson
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Caprice on Jan 1, 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fragranzia (Live in Helsingborg)
Jazz - Released by Voe Records on Jan 20, 2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Free Improvisation IV
Classical - Released by Caprice on Jan 26, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo