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Carsten Dahl Trio: A Good Time
by Chris Mosey
With this album, Denmark's premier jazz pianist Carsten Dahl throws into doubt the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. First, there's the line-up: he's played with Lennart Ginman (bass) and Frands Rifbjerg (drums) many times before, most notably on two previous albums for Storyville, Will You Make My Soup Hot & Silver from ...
Billy Strayhorn: Out Of The Shadows
by Chris Mosey
An elaborate box set from the Danish Storyville label: seven CDs and one DVD, paying tribute to Duke Ellington's arranger and composer Billy Strayhorn that--alas--doesn't quite live up to the ambitions of it's makers. Ask yourself, was Strayhorn truly the shadowy figure implied by the title? While the bulk of ...
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Volume 18
by Chris Mosey
As Duke Ellington leads his band into the opening bars of “Take The A Train," a mighty roar goes up from the radio audience. The moment comes four tracks into the first CD of this double Storyville release, after a somewhat shaky start. With it there's a marvellous feeling of being back in ...
Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington In Grona Lund
by Chris Mosey
Midsummer is a quite magical time to be in Sweden. The long, dark winter is over and now, as the sun stays resolutely above the horizon, the Lutheran natives shed their somber demeanor, dress in traditional costumes, dance around maypoles decorated with garlands of flowers, drink far too much aquavit and have such a good time ...
Dorothy Donegan: Strength, Energy, Imagination
by Chris Mosey
With this double album, Storyville Records--surely the greatest Danish invention since pastry--tells the story of a legend that never was. Dorothy Donegan, born in Chicago in 1924, trained as a classical pianist before switching to jazz and being hailed as “the female Art Tatum." She made her recording debut when ...
Christina Dahl: Life's Carousel
by Chris Mosey
Christina Dahl, wife of Carsten Dahl, Denmark's No. 1 jazz pianist, is that rare phenomenon: a woman saxophonist. She is a very forceful player, guilty perhaps, on occasion, of over- compensating for her femininity. Still, the saxophone has always tended to encourage extremes of expression, from the raucous, macho honking of rhythm 'n' ...
Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor
by Chris Mosey
When Herschel Evans died in 1939, Buddy Tate took his place in the Count Basie band. Basie used Tate's muscular, blues- based tenor as a foil to the lighter toned playing of Lester Young. Tate played with Basie for the next nine years fulfilling the same role with Young's successors, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Lucky Thompson ...
Live At Montmartre Series
by Chris Mosey
Recordings are now being made in Montmartre, the legendary Copenhagen jazz club, which--thanks largely to the efforts of pianist Niels Lan Doky--reopened in 2010. The original Montmartre started in 1959 as a venue for trad, which Scandinavians call “happy jazz." Stan Getz, who lived in the Danish capital from 1958-1961, introduced more modern ...
The Danish Radio Big Band & Eclipse
By Thad Jones
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Tip Toe; New York City; Kids Are Pretty People; Frelimo; Day
Dream; The Farewell; “61’st And Rich’It”; I Got Rhythm; Old Folks; A
Good Time Was Had By All.
CD2: Basically Yours; To You; Snickerdoodle; I Can’t Give You Anything
But Love;
Honky Punk; This Bass Was Made For Walking; Baby, I Can’t Get Over It;
I Hope This Time Isn’t The Last; Arrival; Scrapple From The Apple; La
Solitude; My Centennial.
