Jazz Articles about Carl Petter Opsahl

Carl Petter Opsahl: Love, The Blues

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 26, 2009

Love, The Blues is the third part of Norwegian priest and clarinetist Carl Petter Opsahl's trilogy, and is dedicated by him to God. A deeply moving treatise on the blues, this is not blues in its traditional and well-trodden scales and rhythms--even though Opsahl began his professional career as a musician in New Orleans, and even became a member of the All Star Brass Band--but blues in its innermost essence. This is blues as a music of transforming belief, as ...