Jazz Articles about Carsten Dahl Experience

Carsten Dahl Experience: The Ultimate Experience

by Chris Mosey
October 10, 2017

Danish pianist Carsten Dahl wears many musical hats. The one worn with the band he calls The Carsten Dahl Experience is that of Free Jazz. This was a movement that began in the 1950s and continued into the following decade. Musicians such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler sought greater freedom of expression by jettisoning fixed chord changes and tempos. The genre received a massive boost when John Coltrane, last truly great saxophonist of the ...