MARTIN JACOBSEN guest quartet of the twenty-first edition ARGOJAZZ

The Martin Jacobsen quartet guests of the twenty-first edition ARGOJAZZ
Martin Jacobsen has called Paris his base since 1995 before splitting his time between Italy and South Korea since 2016. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he started playing the saxophone at the age of 19, driven by a strong need for musical expression after listening to jazz for about a year, especially the Miles Davis group with John Coltrane from the 1950s. In 1995, he followed the advice of saxophonist Bob Rockwell who suggested he move to New York or Paris. Martin chose “Paree” and has since performed with Doug Raney, Bobby Durham, David Sanborn, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen,
Mark Taylor, Yutaka Shiina and many others.
Since 2017, Martin Jacobsen has been based in South Korea for most of the year, but is a busy traveler in Europe and abroad and has performed in more than 25 countries at clubs and festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival ( Montreux, Switzerland), Blue Note (Milan, Italy), Akasaka B-flat (Tokyo, Japan), Barbican Hall (London, United Kingdom), New Morning (Paris, France), Berliner Festspielhaus (Berlin, Germany), Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival (Rome, Italy), North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Beijing Ninegates Jazz
Festival (Beijing, China) and many others.
His latest album on SteepleChase Records “Straight Off” (2021) confirmed
his position among the most notable European saxophonists today.
With over 25 years of teaching experience, Martin has held clinics in France, Italy, Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Mongolia, Vietnam
and Mozambique, and taught at conservatories in Paris and Copenhagen.
His method “Let’s Speak Jazz! A Conversational Approach to Jazz
Improvisation for Saxophonists” was published in 2018 by Schott Music.
Martin Jacobsen will be accompanied by Dino Plasmati on guitar, Vittorio Palmisano hanmond, Ale Napolitano drums