Carsten Dahl Experience’s new CD “METAMORPHOSIS” was recorded in Oslo immediately after their concert at Molde Jazz Festival in July 2011. The pianist Carsten Dahl, saxophonist Jesper Zeuthen, bassist Nils “Bosse” Davidson and drummer Stefan Pasborg have once again created a unique musical work that is relevant across, and beyond musical genres. The listener is invited into a universe, where the sound of silence opens itself up into a colorful spectrum of explosive improvisational pieces - performed and mastered in a manner never before seen or heard in a Danish group. The group manages to explore and challenge each other’s musicianship in their joint venture down the road of free improvisational jazz. This CD marks the group’s second release, and features music that contains elements of chaos and harmony performed by Dahl with his solid improvisations, Zeuthen’s balkanized sax and Pasborg’s and Davidsen’s consistent and rhythmic playing. Improvisational Jazz at its very best.
Cat.# 1014272
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Jazz release of the year
Ivan Rod, Gaffa
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Christian Munch-Hansen, Politiken
This box makes Louis Armstrong's All Stars period come alive again with a variety of tracks spanning the years 1947 to 1967. Surrounded by top-flight musicians such as Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sid Catlett, Trummy Young, Milt Hinton, Edmond Hall and Tyree Glenn, you'll hear Armstrong in live settings ranging from nightclubs in New York and Chicago to concerts in Denmark and France to one-nighters in small-towns such as Ephrata, Pennsylvania, putting on a wonderful show wherever he went. In addition to containing many previously unreleased tracks, there is also a DVD capturing some of Armstrong's finest moments from television in the 1950s, including meetings with Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Teagarden and Hoagy Carmichael. So let the old myths die and rejoice in the timeless, swinging and ceaselessly entertaining music of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Oh yeah!
Cat No#: 1088609
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Jack Massarik, The London Evening Standard
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John Fordham, The Guardian, UK
It is with great pleasure, that we at Storyville Records salute and celebrate Jesper Thilo on his upcoming 70th birthday (b. 11.28.1941), by releasing a 3 CD box set featuring a string of his recordings with great American and Danish jazz musicians.
Jesper Thilo is Denmark’s leading tenor saxophonist, and the recordings on these Cds are some of his own favorites, including the terrifi c and fun “Mumbles” with Clark Terry and Richard Boone. The collection consists of 3 CDs, one of which has not been out on CD before. On these CDs Jesper excels his brilliant and lyrical playing on various tunes with Kenny Drew, Jesper Lundgaard, Svend Erik Norregaard, Ole Kock Hansen, Ole Ousen, Sir Roland Hanna, Mads Vinding, Aage Tanggaard, Al Grey, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Billy Hart, Hugo Rasmussen, Alex Riel etc. In Short-3 fi ne CDs that warrant Jesper Thilo’s position as Denmark’s tenor saxophonist No. 1
Cat# 1048427