Jazz Articles about Daniel Karlsson

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Daniel Karlsson: Fuse Number Eleven

Read "Fuse Number Eleven" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
February 24, 2020

Fuse Number Eleven rappresenta una svolta per il trio di Daniel Karlsson e, in generale, per il jazz scandinavo: giunto al sesto disco in studio, il pianista originario di Kristinehamn nel Sud della Svezia, insieme a Christian Spering al contrabbasso, a Fredrik Rundqvist alla batteria e al contributo alla produzione di Goran Petersson, riprende i sentieri elettro-acustici di 5, lasciando maggior spazio all'elettronica e abbandonando il minimalismo ambient di Steve Reich e Philip Glass per quello dark-gotico dei più recenti ...

Album Review

Daniel Karlsson Trio: Das Taxibat

Read "Das Taxibat" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 15, 2014

When not driving a taxi boat around Stockholm's archipelago, pianist Daniel Karlsson is best known as the pianist/organist in drummer Magnus Öström's band and the award-winning, Swedish jazz-fusion quintet Oddjob. The latter's chameleon-like shifts have encompassed funk and chill-out, jazz takes on Ennio Morricone's Western themes and, on JAZOO (Headspin Records, 2013), jazz--of a sophisticated kind--for kids. Das Taxiboat, however, marks Karlsson's first outing as a leader since his promising debut Pan Pan (Caprice Records, 2005), though this time he ...