Jazz Articles about Chris Dundas

Chris Dundas / Arild Andersen / Bendik Hofseth / Patrice Heral: Oslo Odyssey

by Dan McClenaghan
September 19, 2014

What's up with Oslo, Norway? Two of the outstanding recordings by of 2014 have come out of the city: pianist Paul Bley's Play Blue (ECM Records), and now Los Angeles-based pianist Chris Dundas' Oslo Odyssey (BLM Records). Dundas' profile isn't exactly soaring through the stars. He has one previous recording as a leader to his name, a very good mainstream affair from the year 2000, featuring saxophonist Bob Sheppard. What Oslo Odyssey represents for Dundas is something of ...