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Norvald Dahl with Colin Stranahan: The Vision
by Troy Dostert
Norwegian newcomer Norvald Dahl has cultivated his expansive approach to jazz piano since his 2018 debut, Organic Chamber (AMP Music), a trio outing which included saxophonist Jon Irabagon and bassist Mats Eilertsen. That free-spirited release revealed a deeply iconoclastic spirit in Dahl, someone who is as comfortable teasing the contours of a pop-inflected tune as he is venturing into the outer reaches of improvisation or utilizing classical formalism. His follow-up, Flying High (Blamann Records, 2019), was a fetching solo disc ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Tre musicisti quarantenni, chi più chi meno, di cui due norvegesi e uno statunitense (ma di chiare origini asiatiche), compongono questo singolare trio che, al di là dell'assenza della batteria, include un praticamente inedito sax mezzosoprano, intermedio fra contralto e soprano, teoricamente più prossimo al primo, in quanto ricurvo e in Fa, quindi un solo tono più acuto, laddove dal secondo (com'è noto in Si bemolle) lo separano due toni e mezzo, ma di fatto, per sonorità, più equiparabile a ...
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