New releases May 2010
27. maj 2010


After a successful concert tour in Iceland and a trip to China where she performed At the Danish Pavilion at Expo as well as several gigs in both Beijing Shanghai Cathrine Legardh and her band has returned to Denmark. On May 27th her long awaited album number two ”NorDisk” will be issued on the venerable Storyville label.

Legardh sings exclusively in Danish and Swedish on this album, which consists of jazz and Nordic songs of new and older origin – including ballads and standards. She sing songs from the Swedish vocalist Monica Zetterlund’s repertoire. Monica became world famous when she recorded Waltz for Debby with Bill Evans Trio. 3 of the 12 songs on this album are Cathrine’s compositions.
You wil enjoy this CD!

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Cathrine Legardh (vocal)
Francesco Cali (piano/accordion)
Hugo Rasmussen (bass)
Jacob Dinesen (tenor saxophone)
Andreas Fryland (drums)
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QUEST.
2 CD’s
David Liebman and Richard Beirach visited Denmark three consecutive years 1985,1986 and 1987. In 1985 as a duo where they did a studio recording playing jazz standards like Naima, Lover Man, Oleo, Round Midnight, India, On Green Dolphin Street
and Some Other Time.
In 1986 they have added Ron McClure (b) and Billy Hart (dr) Again they did a studio recording playing compositions by David Liebman and Richard Beirach.
Finally in 1987 they did a live recording at Copenhagen’s famous Jazz Club “The Montmartre” with the same group as 1986 and this time they recorded compositions by all four musicians.

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LESTER YOUNG
2 CD’s
You can’t overestimate Lester Young’s importance on the development of modern jazz. His superb melodic gift and logical phrasing and smooth, flowing lines were the inspiration for most of the jazz musicians regardless of instruments born after 1920. (Lester Young born 1909)
As Johnny Griffin said to Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis:
There are five tenor saxophonists that have made the styles we all get our inspiration from: Chu Berry, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. All the tracks on these two CD’s are from the fifties. Three of the sessions are unissued and on one track Oh! Lady Be Good young Miles Davis is on trumpet. It was recorded on a European tour Lester and Miles did in 1956.

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Produktionen er flot og med rigtig god rumlighed i lydbilledet. Det lyder fedt og rigtig godt   afbalanceret. Det er en plade, som kysser såvel musikken som livet lige på trutten på en sådan måde, at man selv bliver glad over at være her og have mulighed for at plukke dagen.
Henrik Palle, Politiken

Det er en udsøgt nydelse at lægge ører til den unge trommeslager Stefan Pasborg,, der med sit levende og virtuose spil kan kunsten at skabe farver og dynamik, ikke mindst når han går i dialog med Carsten Dahl i dennes forrygende ekskursioner.
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Kjeld Frandsen, Berlignske Tidende

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Carsten Dahl Experience ***
Stuart Nicholson – Jazzwise, UK

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GAFFA
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Erfaringer og impulser fra jazzscenen, sublimt opsamlet af fire store musikere
Det er noget af en gruppering, Carsten Dahl har samlet omkring sig med Experience. For ikke bare er det musikere, der har teknikken i orden, de er også alle kendetegnet ved en åbenhed overfor impulser og en enestående evne til at falde i sync med sig selv og hinanden. Det er i hvert fald det indtryk, man får, når man lytter til Carsten Dahl Experiences første pladeudspil, Humilitas. Pianisten Carsten Dahl, saxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen, bassisten Nils "Bosse" Davidsen og trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg skaber sammen et forførende smukt univers – et univers, der sine steder er præget af en kaotisk fremdrift, sine steder er præget af en stilfærdig eftertanke. Undertegnede foretrækker mere stilfærdige, melankolske numre som Jesper Zeuthens Okto og 15 gode grunde, fordi der på én gang er noget melodisk stringent over disse og alligevel en harmonisk kompleksitet. Men pladen som helhed er lytteværdig, fordi samspillet de fire musikere imellem er så enestående åbent. Især hæfter man sig ved Dahls sikre improvisationer, Zeuthens balkaniserede sax og Pasborgs og "Bosses" nænsomme underspil.

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C.D.E. opstod ved en koncert sidste år på Jazzhouse i håb om at kreere lyrisk, men abstrakt musik, der kunne gribe dybere end de overfladiske arrangementer, man bombarderes med dagligt. Det er absolut lykkedes på denne plade. Det emmer af vitalitet og nødvendighed og kombinerer det melodisk tilgængelige med det eksperimentale uden at fjerne sig fra dialog med lytteren i indadvendt støj-masturbation.

Marcus Winther-John – Musikeren


Her optræder Carsten Dahl med ny kvartet, Experience, hvis anden hovedfigur er altsaxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen, og her udforsker han et univers at delvist fri improvisation i ekspressionistiske rammer, som ikke mindst trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg mesterligt er med til at levere – et univers, der snarere end nogen af de nævnte er forbundet med Ornette Colemans oprindelige kvartet eller med Jarretts nu snart 35 år gamle kvartet med amerikanske Dewey Redman.

Det er mellem Zeuthens forrevne fraser og klagende tone og på den anden side Dahls søgen indad i harmonierne med al sin klassiske dannelse som ballast, der gør det til en meget vellykket CD!

Peter H. Larsen – Information


Lad mig sige det fra starten: Cartsten Dahls nye plade er forbløffende god – Carsten Dahls klaverspil blomstrer i helt usædvanlig grad i dette selskab. Faktisk har jeg sjældent hørt ham så dristig og frigjort på plade. Dahl leverer en solistisk improvisation i mesterklasse.

Christian Munch-Hansen, Jazz Special

Carsten Dahl Experience was made at a concert last year in Copenhagen Jazzhouse.
Pianist, Carsten Dahl put together some of the greatest Danish musicians, in what he call’s, a spiritual and musical vision, going and pointing into a lyrical and abstract music – but with the idea of spreading the “good message” and merely to manifest the right to be a free and abstract thinking artist in a world of superficial and partial arrangements all over.
We tend to forget the essence of the necessity to express the qualities of being human and our deepest wish of all: TO FLY!
In this very expressive quartet it’s all right - there! Waves of pulse, beautiful themes, silence and strong chaos and its all being, so well interpenetrated and played by the four greats in the band. Watch out – it comes from all sides at you - and from within. WOW!

First recording from Carsten Dahl in his own name since 2006!


CARSTEN DAHL: Piano og Percussion -JESPER ZEUTHEN: Alto sax
NILS “BOSSE” DAVIDSEN: Bass - STEFAN PASBORG: Drums

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Carsten Dahl Experience
Altsaxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen har som Tchicai også en distinkt personlig tonal identitet, som ikke er til at tage fejl af. Han gik for mange år siden den modsatte instrumentale vej end Tchicai: skiftede fra tenorsax til alt. Zeuthens lyd sætter et dominerende præg på pianisten Carsten Dahls nye cd, Humilitas , med gruppen Carsten Dahl Experience. Den versatile Dahl har foretaget et overrumplende træk og allieret sig med musikere af en anden observans end hans vante partnere. Udover Dahl og Zeuthen er det bassisten Nils Davidsen og trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg. Zeuthen har leveret nogle af kompositionerne - resten er primært Dahls egne. En ny lyd og en ny sang fra Dahl. Det kan også høres som et længe savnet album fra Jesper Zeuthen, men er især et anderledes stimulerende udspil fra Carsten Dahl. Som måske vil tage fusen på mange Dahl fans. Og blive taget til sig af Zeuthens.

Ib Skovgaard, Weekendavisen

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If it all falls a bit short of the rather portentous title, it’s nonetheless very good fun – something that most jazz simply isn’t nowadays
Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz

STUFF SMITH
FIVE FINE VIOLINS
Of the five Radio sessions represented on this release, four of them contain Stuff Smith teaming up with fellow violinists Ray Nance and Danes Svend Asmussen, Søren Christensen and Poul Olsen, three of these have never been released before.

On April 4, 1965 Stuff Smith participated in a radio jubilee concert. Only recently has a mislabeled, long thought lost tape been recovered from the Timme Rosenkrantz archive. The astute listener will question the absence of drummer Alex Riel. There was confusion about the start time of Smith’s set following an interval and Riel failed to appear. Thus, we have a rare glimpse of a late Smith trio with just piano and bass. Riel, as good a drummer as he is, is really not missed. And that’s Stuff tapping on the violin ?. In an act of generosity, Smith introduces "Timme’s Blues" as written by his friend and manager Timme Rosenkrantz. It was, of course, written by Stuff Smith and it had a previous life in the USA under the title "Play:.

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WARNE MARSH & LEE KONITZ
Two Not One

Warne Marsh-Lee  Konitz – Two Not One
Jazzwise, UK ***

Warne Marsh – Lee Konitz Two Not One - *****
Downbeat

December 1975 was a busy month for Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz. It was Warne Marsh’s first visit to Europe.
They played December 3,4 & 5 at the Montmartre in Copenhagen and came back the 27th and played yet another concert at the Montmartre. They were at Rosenberg studio December 28 and 29 for further recordings. All dates were recorded and the result can be heard on this 4 CD box.
It is amazing music from the two Lennie Tristano "pupils".

They played with the Danish musicians Ole Kock Hansen (p) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) and Alex Riel (dr) and for the later sessions with Dave Cliff (g) Peter Ind (b) And Alan Lewitt (dr)

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Svend Asmussen is a world famous jazz-violinist and entertainer. He is now 93 years old and still going strong.
He has had a lot of different groups during the years. On this CD with recordings from 1953, 1958 and 1963 he plays with his quintet, sextet and a duo with guitarist Ulrik Neumann. The recordings are made in Hamburg, Germany where he was a frequent visitor in those years. The sound is fantastic and so is the selection of the standard tunes they play. Svend Asmussen and his quintet/sextet were at its peak. Storyville Records are very happy for this release of unissued material with one of the greatest jazz-musicians from Denmark.

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Thomas Blachman's official website 
Thomas Blachman on MySpace Music
Thomas Blachman | Facebook

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The Pulse - et adeles forrygende album, som både signalerer respekt for genrens traditioner og trang til fornyelse af selvsamme traditioner. Konstellationen Thomas Blachman, Jakob Dinesen, Mads La Cour, Heine Hansen og Daniel Franck formår at finde ind til en fælles puls - heraf albummets titel – og det med sådan en tæft, at man forbløffes og glædes. Blachman synes virkelig at være kommet hjem!
Ivan Rod Gaffa


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Red Mitchell Warne Marsh BIG TWO Red Mitchell and Warne Marsh had a series of engagements in Scandinavia during April of 1980. On the 18th and 19th of April they were playing at the Fasching Club in Stockholm where these two CD’s were recorded. The combination of tenorsaxophone and bass were rare but it worked out very good. As Mitchell observed, a duo is the smallest group you can get. "When I layed out it’s obvious that Warne doesn’t need a bass player.He can play all by himself, he can play all the chords, all the rhythms, he can play the bass lines and he certainly knows the melodies". Most of the compositions are taken from The Great American Songbook, others are bebop classics based on the chord changes of standards. Funky it ain’t but swing it does, with great taste and subtlety as well as some superb improvisations.Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz Red Mitchell/Warne Marsh – Big Two: In this intriguing double-CD due set Red Mitchell is totally attuned to his sophisticated approach to harmony, rhythm and structure on a release that can be thoroughly recommended. Gordon Jack/Jazz Journal Warne Marsh – Red Mitchell – Big Two **** Downbeat

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Ralph Sutton Ralph Sutton visited Copenhagen a number of times and played with the local musicians. On this CD he plays solo, duo, quartet, sextet and septet with the best Danish musicians. Ralph Sutton is a brilliant stride piano player who played timeless jazz. He was influenced by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. On the sextet and septet session his fellow American Wild Bill Davison plays trumpet. His piano solo is Bix Beiderbecke’s famous composition In The Dark. This is a CD for fans that like timeless jazz played by very good musicians. Ralph Sutton, “Last of the Whorehouse Players,” died in Evergreen, Colorado, in 2001 at the age of 79. In Copenhagen is a fitting memorial. Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz Duke Jordan Duke Jordan settled down in Copenhagen in the autumn of 1973 and remained here to his death. He was mainly known for his work with Charlie Parker. The idea for this solo CD came about when he played at the Elsinore Jazz Festival in1992. The session was taped but the sound was not very good, so he recorded the whole session over again in a studio in Copenhagen and the result you can hear on this CD. Duke was a very good composer and he plays 6 of his own compositions on the CD. Listen to: No Problem-Jor-Du-Flight To Jordan-Parisian Hop-Two Loves and Night Walk. In Copenhagen reveals a restless, questing musical intelligence at work. But so, too, does it demonstrate someone striving for reconciliation with a life that, in the 1960s, saw him reduced to earning his living as a New York cab driver. Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz

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The DVD was recorded live at Village Vanguard in New York 1981
with Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond and Kenny Washington.

JOHNNY ARNOLD GRIFFIN III IS HIS REAL NAME. He was also called the "The Little Giant" or "The Fastest Gun Alive" and "The Tough Tenors when he was playing with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Johnny Griffin was the fastest swinging tenorplayer in Jazz which you will hear when you listen to this 3 CD 1 DVD box set. CD 1 was recorded in April 1964 when he played the Montmartre Club with Art Taylor, Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. CD 2 was also from Montmartre recorded July 10, 1984 with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (The Tough Tenors) Harry Pickens, Curtis Lundy and Kenny Washington. CD 3 was recorded at Jazzhus Slukefter in the Tivoli Garden July 15, 1989 with Kenny Drew, Jens Melgaard and Ole Streenberg. Good time music played passionately with precision while swingin’ with virtuosity and soul; that was Johnny Griffin Greg Thomas, AllAboutJazz – New York

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No. 2 on hmv.co.jp’s Jazz Top 20

After World War II, Voice of America radio broadcasts by Leonard Feather and Willis Conover helped to lay the foundation for subsequent tours. U.S. State Department sponsored the tours that sent America’s JAZZ AM-BASSADORS around the world. They travelled from 1955 to the 70’s and visited such different places as the Soviet Union, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, India, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Philippines, Ceylon, Japan, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Chile, Argentina and Europe. Everywhere they played they were very well received and did a fantastic job as "Good Will Jazz Ambassadors"

The Jam Session CD contains music with some of the Ambassadors:
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL STARS/ Someday You Will Be Sorry/When The Saints Go Marching In
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET/The Golden Horn/Thank You
BENNY CARTER QUARTET/Blue Star/Summer Serenade
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA/Perdido/Thing Ain’t What They Used To Be
DIZZY GILLESPIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA/Cool Breeze/Mantecca
WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/Sleepy Serenade/Starlight Souvenirs
CLARK TERRY & HIS ORCHESTRA feat.
PAUL GONSALVES/Blues For The Champ Of Champs/Daniel’s Blues
JAZZ WEEKLY: These guys do more for international relations than Obama could ever dream of.

If I were awarding stars (as some publications do) I would have to award a whole galaxy.
Herb Young – IAJRC Journal

There is enough previously unknown and unissued material combined with reissued unknown and unissued material from a variety of obscure sources to make this of interest to any Tatum, student or would-be student.
Cadence
"A box with live recordings of the greatest jazzpianist ever? Priceless”.
Jazzism, Holland, Winter 2009.
Overwhelming, yes, but so is Mt. Everest. You've not heard the piano until you've heard Tatum.
George W. Harris - Jazz Weekly
Jazzthetik, Germany

The detailed liner notes and numerous photos add to the value of this
essential collection of rare Art Tatum.
On top ten list of top reissues/historical recordings posted at Jaazhouse.org
Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

Tatum's Art Changed Jazz - Tatum always sounds like he's got at least 20 fingers himself
Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal

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Ben Webster -- Dig Ben
Eric Alterman's review:
This eight-disc compilation of the famed tenor saxophonist Ben Webster's work is largely made of his European recordings, made from 1964-1973, mostly in Scandinavia. Webster went to Europe when he was 55 - a fear of flying prevented an earlier trip, but once there, Webster never returned to the United States. The compilation, released by Storyville Records, feature Webster at Copenhagen's famous Montmartre club as well as sessions from London, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and several tracks recorded before he left New York. It's a real treasure. Nobody sounds like Ben and here you can just wallow in the stuff; thoughtful, intelligent and you know, warm. For an eight-CD box set, with excellent bibliographical material, though not much in the way of fancy packaging, it's pretty well priced too. You can read all about it here.

These four releases by Storyville are a testament to the timelessness of good quality jazz.

Wild Bill Davison
In CopenhagenTrumpeter Bill Davison is in an energized mood on this collection of studio tunes from February, 1974. Caught with a variety of Danish bands ranging from quintet to sextet, Davison exuberantly swings through standards like “If I Had You”, “Someday You’ll Be Sorry” and “I’m Confessin’” with a joyful brashness that bars no holds.

Jay McShann
In CopenhagenThis 1977 studio release by Jay McShann finds him in a cozy small group, and for my money, it’s own of his best, clearly personifying what Kansas City Jazz was all about.

Frank Rosolino
In Copenhagen Put out a mere 2 months before his tragic death in 1978, trombonist Frank Rosolino is found here in excellent form. A master of triple tonguing, and various other tightrope walking, Rosolino displays all his talents on this disc that ranges from a boppish “Blue Daniel” to an angular “Straight No Chaser”.
jazzweekly.com

JAZZWISE UK
En løfterig debut, helt bestemt. Thorbjørn Sjøgren

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THE TREASURY SHOWS VOL. 13 (More)
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There are some shining jewels on this cd." - Frank van Nus, Doctor Jazz Magazine 

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Ella Fitzgerald & Mildred Bailey - Legendary Radio Broadcasts - Review in Doctor Jazz Magazine

CD1 (Ella Fitzgerald): "Een uiterst genietbare combinatie, zowel de vocale stukken als de instrumentale laten swingmuziek op zijn best horen." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
"An extremely enjoyable combination, both the vocal pieces and the instrumental show swing music at its best." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
CD2 (Mildred Bailey): "Deze radio-opnamen blijken een platform voor enkele top jazzspelers van dat moment." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
"These radio recordings prove to be a platform for some top jazz players of that moment." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine

 
 
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