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 reputati...