Carsten Dahl

Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman, Carsten Dahl – What’s to Come! (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 4, 2024 · Comments off

The three renowned Danish jazz artists, bassist Lennart Ginman, drummer Thomas Blachman and pianist Carsten Dahl, are collectively known under the moniker GinmanBlachmanDahl. Bearing the title, “What’s to Come!”, this record is a testament to the power of spontaneity, unpredictability, and collaboration in the realm of jazz. The combination of these three masterful musicians has resulted in an album that simply oozes swing, timing, dexterity, and imagination. They are simply put – some of the most visionary and innovative Danish jazz musicians and composers, and their music reflects their never-ending quest to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Unlike a conventional studio recording, this album was born out of raw spontaneity and creative synergy within the trio – every note, every chord, every rhythm was created in the spur of the moment. The result is a sonic journey into the heart and essence of improvisation.

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Carsten Dahl – The Solo Songs of Keith Jarrett (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 16, 2023 · Comments off

Recognised as one of the most accomplished musicians of his generation, Carsten Dahl pays a mesmerising tribute to the legendary Keith Jarrett on ‘The Solo Songs of Keith Jarrett’.

This remarkable recording showcases Dahl’s extraordinary talent, as he collaborates with a host of acclaimed musicians, including trumpet virtuoso Palle Mikkelborg, versatile saxophonist Fredrik Lundin, expressive bassist Nils Bo Davidsen, melodic drummer Stefan Pasborg and musicians from Ensemble Midtvest to craft a mesmerizing tribute to the iconic Keith Jarrett, one of the most influential jazz instrumentalists of his generation. The album was partly recorded in the concert hall of the Royal Danish Library ‘Dronningesalen’ during the 2019 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, where Dahl and his fellow musicians established a spiritual dialogue. Not only do they celebrate the iconic and legendary virtuoso, they try instead to grasp the air of his songwriting by playing both compositions by themselves and interpretations of some of Jarrett’s less known material plus a couple of Jarrett’s favorites by others.

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Carsten Dahl Trinity with Nils Bo Davidsen & Stefan Pasborg – Painting Music (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 6, 2022 · Comments off

The tunes are instantly recognizable: well-known standards such as “All The Things You Are”, “Over The Rainbow” or “Autumn Leaves”. And yet the listener always has the impression of hearing something completely new. On “Painting Music”, Danish pianist Carsten Dahl gives his own take on some of the great classics of the jazz repertoire in a way that is highly personal, resolutely individual and completely revelatory.

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Carsten Dahl – Sagn (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 6, 2022 · Comments off

’Sagn’ in English means ‘saga’, and is a narrative or legend founded in the oral tradition. Many sagas were written down much later than they first originated, then finally published in collections of folklore.

Here you will hear a kind of music that Carsten Dahl ‘downloads’ in the moment, with no agenda or deliberation involved in the creative process. In a timeless state where he lets his own, inner soundboard resonate to the sound of the universal language that flows as energy, continuously offering information about the eternal.

Using only his right hand, the music was recorded in one, long take (or flow), with no post-editing.

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Carsten Dahl, Tim Hagans, Johnny Åman, Jukkis Uotila – A Beautiful Blue Moment (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 1, 2022 · Comments off

The Danish piano auteur Carsten Dahland the dynamic American trumpetist Tim Hagans meet the acclaimed Swedish double bass player Johnny Åman and the Finnish master drummer Jukkis Uotilaon the new album A Beautiful Blue Moment, now available on Storyville Records. Actually, this rare quartet had never played together, before they gathered at the scene of the historic jazz club Montmartre in Copenhagen and played the music of the moment at three sold out evenings in August 2021. Quite the moment indeed! The quartet mainly played free music with an original searching idea of being composing musicians and playing composers, who constantly found new horizontal and vertical directions in music. The original idea for the quartet arose, when Dahl and Hagans taught together at a jazz college in 2019, and realized that they shared musical understanding, humor, fervor and curiosity, when it comes to exploring the essence of music creation. They have been close friends ever since. Dahl, Uotila and Åman had their very first musical encounter at Montmartre, but it turned out to be a truly magical and flying journey. The combination of the four musicians is simply an explosive, poetic and ground-breaking meeting, where their common breathing in music is free, effortless and at the same time linked to their great habitus in tradition and in the many expressions of jazz music. After three great evenings, where musical sparks flew in abundance, the four musicians went directly in the studio for a 6 hours spontaneous recording session. The result is a once in a lifetime jazz voyage, so fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a ride!

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Alex Riel, Bo Stief & Carsten Dahl – Our Songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 8, 2022 · Comments off

Always curious and always looking for new challenges, Alex Riel has been an important innovator of modern drumming in Europe. He was among the very first to record a “free” solo on his debut album in 1965 and he was a founding member of the beat-group Savage Rose, while also playing with Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon and being a member of Monica Zetterlund’s quartet. From the last 20 years we know him for his work with Enrico Pieranunzi, Kenny Werner, Mads Vinding and many others.

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