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Alex Jønsson

Alex Jønsson is an award-winning Danish guitarist, composer and improviser.

He has been greatly recognized for his Nordic and melancholic expression – both as a composer and a

soloist - and has toured in most of Europe as well as in India.

Most people will know him from orchestras like I Think You’re Awesome, Mirja Klippel and Bagland.

Yet, in recent years, as a composer and a bandleader, Alex Jønsson has raised his profile as one of the most interesting jazz guitarists on the modern scene.

He has released four albums as a leader, played on a number of significant releases and has been nominated for a Danish Music Award Jazz no less than nine times!

Awards

// :: 2018 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the categories :: ’Best Jazz Album of the Year' with I Think You're Awesome: Kiss Your Darlings // :: 2017 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the categories :: ’Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year’ with Live Foyn Friis: With Aarhus Jazz Orchestra // :: 2016 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the category :: ’Best Crossover Jazz Album of the Year’ with I Think You’re Awesome: Books /// Nominated for a Danish Music Award Folk in the category: ’Best New Talent of the Year’ with Mirja Klippel // :: 2015 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the categories :: ’Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year’ with Live Foyn Friis: Running Heart /// ’Best Crossover Jazz Album of the Year’ with Live Foyn Friis: Running Heart /// ’Best New Jazz Act’ with Jakob Sørensen: Bagland // :: 2014 :: // 2nd place in ’Burghausen Jazz Awards’, Germany, with Elliott // :: 2013 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the category :: 'Best New Jazz Act’ with Alex Jønsson 3: The Lost Moose // :: 2012 :: // Nominated for a Danish Music Award in the category: ’Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year’ with Foyn Trio!: Joy Visible


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Album Review

Alex Jønsson: Heathland

Read "Heathland" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jonsson returns with the same trio heard on Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus (Self Produced, 2016), with bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen and drummer Andreas Skamby. This is a studio recording with richer sound, but the band's music shows considerable growth beyond that. The title tune opens the set, a rubato exercise in three-way communication, which covers a lot of ground in its brief duration. Jønsson employs more electronic processing here, starting with the ghostly, ...

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Alex Jønsson: Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus

Read "Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Recorded live at a living room concert, Heart of Gold presents an intimate portrait of Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jønsson and his trio. The title tune opens the set: it's not the well known Neil Young song, but it does have an Americana tinge. Drummer Andreas Skamby sets up a pillow of sound using mallets, bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen plays a repeating bass pattern, and Jønsson's guitar sings the tune. When he solos he usually favors single note lines with a ...

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Elliott: Girls with Radical Haircuts

Read "Girls with Radical Haircuts" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The three young Danish musicians who comprise Elliott-- guitarist Alex Jønsson and double bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen, two-thirds of the indie-pop-jazz Foyn Trio! with Norwegian vocalist Live Foyn Friis, and trumpeter Jakob Sørensen, are aware of all music that was created in the last one hundred years. As the trio declares: “we already have everything from Billie Holiday to The Beatles and Björk," yet this trio is definite that there is more that it can offer. These ...

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Alex Jonsson 3: The Lost Moose

Read "The Lost Moose" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Danish guitarist Alex Jønsson--currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden-- recently graduated from the acclaimed Danish Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, but already has a defined and focused aesthetics on his first release as a leader. Jønsson, together with reed player Lars Greve and drummer Christian Windfeld, has managed to create a recording of immediate, light and highly melodic songs, all embodying a reserved Nordic melancholy and thoughtfulness. These songs border on a pop songs sensibility, and it ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

States Of Being

Jaeger Community Music
2022

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Heathland

Self released
2020

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Heart Of Gold: Live...

Self Produced
2016

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Spy On Your Friends

Self Produced
2015

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The Lost Moose

Self Produced
2013

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Girls with Radical...

Self Produced
2013

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The Sun Is Slowly Rising

From: Heathland
By Alex Jønsson

Heart of Gold

From: Heart of Gold
By Alex Jønsson

Romanticized

From: Spy On Your Friends
By Alex Jønsson

Apple Pie

From: The Lost Moose
By Alex Jønsson

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