Jazz
Loveland Music · 13 November 2026
“Bjerge, Strand” was recorded over two days, 5 and 6 December 2023, at The Village Recording in Copenhagen’s Vanløse district, and it’s finally out, almost three years later, on 13 November via Loveland Music. Danish guitarist Jakob Bro is joined by Larry Grenadier on double bass and Jorge Rossy on drums, with Charles Lloyd guesting on tenor sax and flute. According to the press notes, the session took place while Bro was touring Europe with Lloyd and Grenadier behind “The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow”, Lloyd’s 2024 album.
There are ten tracks running to just over an hour. The notes split the writing between Bro and Lloyd, with “Peace Song” co-written by the two and “Yahllah” by Paul Motian. The longest piece, “Prayer”, at almost eleven minutes, closes the record. “In this session we did only one take of each song, as far as I remember,” Bro says in the same notes.
All three had already recorded “Once Around the Room”, the Motian tribute ECM issued in 2022, at the same studio.
Thomas Vang recorded and mixed it, and David Elberling handled mastering. It’s out as a limited-edition double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by Tal R. The quartet will play it live just once, on 30 November, on the opening night of the Loveland Music Festival at Copenhagen’s Bremen Teater. Bro’s previous full-length, “From Such A Blue Sky”, with percussionist Midori Takada, came out on 9 October.
Text by Aina Torrents