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Chris Dahlgren

Chris Dahlgren: Cherubs Contemplating Tacky Bass Figurines In Heaven

by Mike Jacobs
August 8, 2023

This sublime track from bassist Chris Dahlgren is really a quasi-classical chamber miniature given the meterless/free treatment by some great jazz-minded musicians. And while the buzz-bassed, noise-meditative mid-section may be enough to throw off a few less-than-committed passengers, it also may be the perfect--if unlikely--foil that turns the whole 9+ minutes into something transcendent. Featuring Tim ...

Both sides of the river

Label: Societatea de Concerte Bistrița
Released: 2016

Mircea Tiberian: The Natural Force of Music

by Adriana Carcu
August 14, 2014

Pianist Mircea Tiberian is an emblematic figure of Romanian jazz, with a prodigious musical and academic career. He plays an influential role in the jazz scene and as author of many theoretical studies and essays, fosters its development on the theoretical level as well. Along his 40 year career Tiberian has played with top ranking Romanian ...

Garana Jazz Festival 2014

by Adriana Carcu
August 1, 2014

Garana Jazz Festival Wolf's Meadow Garana, Romania July 10-13, 2014 One of Europe's most visited festivals, taking place on a meadow over 300 ft. high in the Western Carpathians, just had its 18th anniversary. The lineup, a brand mark of the festival director, Marius Giura, combined again tradition ...

Eric Schaefer: Who Is Afraid Of Richard W.?

by Bruce Lindsay
January 24, 2013

In 2013 the international music community celebrates the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth. The venerable and controversial composer has been rather quiet of late, but his body of work is one of the best known in the classical canon. On Who Is Afraid of Richard W.? Eric Schaefer--a highly-regarded drummer probably best known as a ...

Mystic Maze

By Chris Dahlgren

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Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. A Mystic Maze; 02. Repetition Unit 1; 03. 'Painless Dentistry' No.1; 04. Great Desires of the Modernists; 05. Reminiscences On The Fourth Quartet of Béla Bartók; 06. It Was As If Two People Were Improvising Against Each Other; 07. Mesto; 08. 'Painless Dentistry' No.2; 09. The Composer Promenading the Keyboard in His Boots; 10. Bitter Champagne; 11. Repetition Unit 2; 12. 'Painless Dentistry' No.3.

Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25: Groningen, The Netherlands, August 26-27, 2011

by John Sharpe
September 14, 2011

Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25Groningen, Netherlands August 26-27, 2011 Only in the Netherlands. Where else would anyone think to create such a harmonious conjugation of jazz and cycling? Now in its 25th year, the annual ZomerJazzFietsTour (Summer Jazz Cycling Tour) takes place in the bucolic countryside just outside Groningen in the northern Netherlands. ...

Chris Dahlgren & Lexicon: Mystic Maze

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2011

Il bassista newyorkese Chris Dahlgren mette assieme un bel quintetto denominato Lexicon e si avventura in territori piuttosto inconsueti che mettono in risalto la dimensione anche caricaturale della musica. Ma lo fa senza spingere affatto sulla componente derisiva spesso associata alla caricatura e si limita a prendere atto di un modo di comunicare che privilegia i ...

Mystic Maze

By Chris Dahlgren

Label: Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-brandenburg E.v.
Released: 2010
Track listing: A Mystic Maze; Repetition Unit 1; 'Painless Dentistry' No.1; Great Desires of the Modernists; Reminiscences On The Fourth Quartet of Béla Bartók; It Was As If Two People Were Improvising Against Each Other; Mesto; 'Painless Dentistry' No.2; The Composer Promenading the Keyboard in His Boots; Bitter Champagne; Repetition Unit 2; 'Painless Dentistry' No.3.