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Carsten Dahl
12+ albums
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Biography Carsten Dahl b. 1967 Carsten Dahl began playing the drums at age 9. By 14 years old, he was already a professional drummer / studio musician and at 19 he entered the Rhythmic Music Conservatory. After two years of being taught by legendary jazz drummers Ed Thigpen and Alex Riel, he put drums aside in favour of the piano (an instrument he had never been taught in his life) and applied again to the conservatory - now as a pianist greatly influenced by Jørgen Nielsen and later, Butch Lacy, who had a significant influence on his musical identity both as a mentor, icon and spiritual teacher. It was in the early 90's that he began to play with Embla and Niels Præstholm, Thomas Agergaard, Anders Hentze and Staffan Svensson. Their first and only CD "EMBLA" was a high point in Danish jazz and displays his freeplaying strongly - something that he would put aside for some years to go deep into the Be Bop tradition. During this time of busy collaboration, Carsten started to develop his unique style, and met (via saxophonist Agergaard) drummer Thomas Blachman and bassist Lennart Ginman. Dahl appears in various of Thomas Blachman's jazz / hip hop projects during the 90's, as well as records from the trio he formed with Ginman and drummer Frands Rifbjerg. Significant are the worldwide highly acclaimed two trio albums "Will you make my soup hot and silver" and "Message from Bud". This trio went on to record a series of albums for the Japanese label Marshmallow - "Blue Train and
