Forever Young is an album by Norwegian guitarist and composer Jacob Young released on the ECM label in 2014.[1][2]

Forever Young
Studio album by Jacob Young
Released	May 16, 2014
Recorded	August 2013
Studio	Rainbow Studio, Oslo
Genre	Improvised music, Jazz
Length	73:30
Label	ECM ECM 2366
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Jacob Young chronology
InterStatic (2012) Forever Young (2014) Arise (2014)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Young's playing throughout offers great technical facility, but he is a democratic bandleader, never showy. Forever Young stands out in his catalog because it reveals an almost immeasurable growth in his compositional skills since 2007. These tunes inspire this fine band; they play as if they'd been playing them for ages".[3] In JazzTimes John Murph wrote: "The airy arrangements afford Young plenty of room to showcase his comely, full-bodied sound and his effortless manner of unraveling melodically cogent improvisations. His gifts as a composer are on full display as well, and he demonstrates an intriguing way of enveloping pop and rock motifs into soft-hued modern jazz".[5] On All About Jazz John Kelman noted "Forever Young demonstrates an ability to simmer in a way that his previous ECM recordings did not. It also represents a first outing by a quintet with plenty of potential; hopefully six years won't have to pass before this intimate yet delicately expressionistic quintet can once again reconvene".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jacob Young.

1. "I Lost My Heart to You" - 8:29
2. "Therese's Gate" - 6:44
3. "Bounce" - 7:46
4. "We Were Dancing" - 5:52
5. "Sofia's Dance" - 7:33
6. "Comeback Girl" - 7:01
7. "1970" - 6:34
8. "Beauty" - 6:11
9. "Time Changes" - 9:32
10. "My Brother"- 7:43

Personnel

• Jacob Young - guitar
• Trygve Seim - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Marcin Wasilewski - piano
• Slawomir Kurkiewicz - bass
• Michal Miskiewicz - drums

Production and design

• Engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug
• Design by Sascha Kleis
• Liner photos by Summer Krinsky
• Produced by Manfred Eicher

References