Career
Jacob Fischer started to play at the age of 14 and Wes Montgomery, B.B. King and Django Reinhardt were among his first inspirations. Fischer had his debut at the age of 17 when he played at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. This led to the first engagement at the legendary jazz club Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen.
Since then he has played in numerous ensembles and with the entire Danish jazz elite, including Allan Botschinsky, Jesper Thilo, Finn Ziegler, Bob Rockwell and Radioens bigband.
He has also formed duos with the guitarist Doug Raney and the bassists Hugo Rasmussen and Mads Vinding. He has also played with international jazz musicians such as Toots Thielemans, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Gary Bartz, John Abercrombie, Scott Hamilton, Adam Nussbaum, Putte Wickman, January Allan and Jerry Bergonzi.