Tomo Jacobson is an improviser, composer, double bass player and multi-instrumentalist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He focuses his efforts on free improv and other creative musics. With more than 30 albums to his credit, he is mainly known for the projects he is a leader, or co-leader to, namely MOONBOW, MOUNT MEANDER, IL SOGNO, or WOOD ORGANIZATION as well as his solo double bass work, and free improv encounters with acclaimed musicians.
Tomo has been very fortunate to perform with the greats like John Tchicai, Hassan Hakmoun, Mat Maneri, Adam Rudolph, Rasul Siddik, Andrew D'Angelo, Lotte Anker, P.O. Jørgens, Frank Gratkowski, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sun Araw, Mikołaj Trzaska, Michael Blake, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Jacob Anderskov, Kresten Osgood, Hugh Steinmetz, Søren Kjaergaard, Torben Snekkested, Jesper Zeuthen, and many others.
He has performed in most of Europe, Cuba, Mongolia, Peru, Los Angeles, and New York.
Tomo is also an active music life curator and organizer in Copenhagen. Most notably he was a founder of the yearly Freedom Music Festival, which was focused on solo and duo free improvised concerts.
He graduated with a master's degree from the prestigious Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen and later did Advanced Post-Graduate artistic research studies there too. He has also been studying musicology at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
In 2017 together with Hipermania, Tomo founded an independent record label and publishing house Gotta Let It Out.
