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Kenneth Dahl Knudsen

Born: June 26, 1984

Kenneth Dahl Knudsen is a Danish bassist and composer whose career has taken him across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His music has been performed in a wide variety of cultural settings, from intimate clubs to symphony halls.

As a bandleader, he has created and developed a number of projects, including ensembles that explore both contemporary jazz and cross-cultural collaboration. He has also been an active sideman in long-term groups and numerous international collaborations.

Beyond performance, Knudsen has written for orchestras, chamber groups, and large jazz ensembles, with works premiered by institutions such as the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, orchestras in Copenhagen and Tokyo, and several of his own large-scale ensembles.

Kenneth Dahl Knudsen: Beyond 'Sound American' – Crafting a Nordic Jazz Identity

by Ieva Pakalniskyte
September 4, 2025

What does finding an authentic musical voice in a genre so deeply connected to history and geography mean? The answer for Danish double bassist, composer, and educator Kenneth Dahl Knudsen is to transcend limitation and let identity shape the sound. A restless presence on the European jazz scene, Knudsen has resisted the pressure to ...

Gloomers

By Kenneth Dahl Knudsen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Gloomers (feat. Undine Rolava); Rumbler (feat. Sofie Trolle); Glimmerings (feat. Emilie Fleig); Ghosts (feat. Ganna Gryniva); Wanderlust (feat. Ingrid Halle); Love Song For Strangers (feat. Undine Rolava); Phoenix (feat. Camilla Haugbjerg); The Cone (feat. Emilie Fleig); Glow (feat. Viola Okos); The Assistant (feat. Camilla Haugbjerg); Amends (feat. Emilie Fleig).

ATLAS

By Kenneth Dahl Knudsen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Chorzow; Tripoli; Buenos Aires; Vilnius; Masada; Galway; Kangerlussuaq; Tiznit; Arden.

Mindaugas Stumbras: Inspirations

by Vitalijus Gailius
May 7, 2021

Mindaugas Stumbras is a leading jazz guitarist of Lithuanian scene who has much of potential to be broadly acclaimed by international community. He graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow in 2019, and he has already played and toured internationally not only with the well known Lithuanian fusion jazz band Brave Noises, but ...

UUMMAT

By Matias Fischer-Mogensen

Label: KDK Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Allamioq; Uummannaq; Monsters; Maliina; Anngiaq; The Sleigh; Inua; Sorsunneq

New Sounds from the Danish Scene: Nina Baun, Henrik Pultz Melbye, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen & Jesper Thorn

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 30, 2016

For such a small country, there is an incredibly amount of diversity on the Danish jazz scene and new names and albums pop up all the time while experiments are made with forms and genres. The following four releases cover everything from diverse singer/songwriter vocal jazz to a modern saxophone trio, grand orchestral jazz and a ...

Thomas Albæk Jakobsen's Flux: Voyager

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 29, 2016

Flux is a project from Danish drummer and composer Thomas Albæk Jakobsen. In 2013, he released the album Relations. Voyager is the follow-up and as the name implies, it is an adventurous album that explores many moods, but the tone is predominantly lyrical. An important addition to the group is the experienced pianist ...

Thomas Albæk Jakobsen's Flux: Voyager

by Dan Bilawsky
February 21, 2016

Tranquil tidings, flowing gestures, sweeping statements, curious encounters, and triumphant displays are all incorporated into the music of Danish drummer Thomas Albæk Jakobsen's FLUX. For the band's second album, following Relationships (Self Produced, 2013), Jakobsen sought to highlight the group's development during the two year span between records. That aspect of the work is something that ...

Thomas Albaek Jakobsen's Flux: Relationships

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 20, 2013

The aptly-titled Relationships describes best the debut release of Danish drummer Thomas Albæk Jakobsen's quintet Flux. It is all about the relationships between the musicians, their emphatic interplay, how they inspire each other and the way comprising pieces are weaved together to form a distinctive whole. Jakobsen's well-crafted compositions have a strong melodic ...