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Norvald Dahl

Norwegian born pianist Norvald Dahl (b.1978) just finished his master degree at the highly acclaimed ´Norwegian academy of music´ in Oslo. He has been touring and playing professionally for the past ten years, and is associated with groups like the "Wayne Brasel Quartet" and his own quartet, the "Norvald Dahl trio plus Jon Irabagon".

Dahl grew up with folk music and discovered the piano at early age. He soon discovered improvisation and found jazz to be the perfect vehicle for his expression. In his playing he combines influences from legends like Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans, and blends with lyricism from Norwegian folk music and a classical tone on the piano.

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Norvald Dahl with Colin Stranahan: The Vision

Read "The Vision" reviewed 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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Norvald Dahl: Organic Chamber

Read "Organic Chamber" reviewed 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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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Vision

Blamann Records
2020

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Flying High

Blåmann Records
2019

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Organic Chamber

AMP Music & Records
2018

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Homeland

From: Flying High
By Norvald Dahl

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