Results for "Carsten Dahl"

Carsten Dahl

Born: October 3, 1967

Aarhus Jazz Festival 2022

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 20, 2022

Aarhus Jazz Festival Various Venues Aarhus, Denmark July 9-16, 2022 With around 283,000 citizens, jny: Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark, and the role of playing second fiddle doesn't suit a city that tends to be overshadowed by its big brother, the capital jny: Copenhagen. Or so you would think. ...

Alan Braufman, Anteloper & Owl Xounds Exploding Galazy

by Maurice Hogue
August 19, 2020

It's baseball season—sort of—so I guess you could say this episode of OMJ touches a lot of bases. The NY underground scene gets explored a bit via 70's Loft pioneer Alan Braufman who has a new release, while more recent practitioners of the outside get sampled—Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy and Scurvy. Today's Jaimie Branch is here ...

Jerry Granelli, Lisa Ullén, Rudresh Mahanthappa & Yells At Eels

by Maurice Hogue
July 8, 2020

Drummer extraordinaire Jerry Granelli says he doesn't look back too much, he'd prefer to move forward with his music, but with Jamie Saft and Brad Jones in tow, he decided the time was right to rediscover some of the tunes he played backing Vince Guaraldi and Mose Allison years back. A sample of his new album ...

Whit Dickey, Asher Gamedze, Quin Kirchner, Icepick and More

by Maurice Hogue
June 24, 2020

Three albums by drummers highlight this episode. South Africa's Asher Gamedze's Dialectic Soul brings to light the freer, more avant side of contemporary South African jazz (perhaps in a way that the revered Louis Moholo Moholo did over fifty years ago), while drummer Quin Kirchner's latest delves into various rhythms and tributes to favorite musicians. Tying ...

Painting Music

By Carsten Dahl

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sailing With no Wind; All The Things You Are; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Jag gik mig ud en sommerdag; Bluesy in Different Ways; Solar; Be My Love; You and the Night and the Music; Blue in Green; Autumn Leaves.

Carsten Dahl: Painting Music

by Chris Mosey
November 23, 2019

Danish pianist Carsten Dahl uses the liner notes for Painting Music to try to explain the process of creation. “The universe has a sound and rhythm," he says. “Everything moves forward, either powerful and explosive or modest and like slow shadows in a landscape." The words accompany a picture of Dahl with paint-stained ...

Jakob Dinesen: Keys & Strings

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 29, 2019

In the liner essay for Jakob Dinesen's double album, Keys & Strings, writer Eddie Michel Azoulay mentions the tenor saxophonist's quest for truth and beauty. The romantic poet John Keats is not mentioned directly, but his lines from the famous poem “Ode on a Gracian Urn" immediately come to mind: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that ...

Arild Andersen/Paolo Vinaccia/Tommy Smith: In-House Science

by Karl Ackermann
March 9, 2018

Arild Andersen's superb trio with tenor saxophonist Tommy Smith and drummer Paolo Vinaccia had previously released two ECM albums, Live at Belleville (2008), and Mira (2014). Smith and Andersen joined the saxophonist's frequent collaborators, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra for Celebration (2015) which included “Independency, Pt. 4" from Belleville. In-House Science is the second live album ...

Torhild Ostad / Carsten Dahl: Jeg roper til deg

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 7, 2017

Back in 1982, the Norwegian singer, Radka Toneff, released a very special duo album with the American pianist, Steve Dobrogosz, called Fairytales. Since then, the fate of the music has also become something of a fairytale, with the album being chosen as one of the best Norwegian albums of all time. It seems ...