Carsten Dahl

Carsten Dahl (October 3, 1967) is a Danish Jazz pianist. "Dahl is a truly great pianist" Chris Mosey said, in his All About Jazz review of Dahl's CD In Our Own Sweet Way released in 2009 with Alex Riel and Mads Vinding.

Biography
Dahl, nine years old, started to play drums. He studied at the Copenhagen Jazz Conservatory for two years before he turned his eyes on piano in which he never had any previous training. He wanted to be a Jazz musician who could play Bebop. His role models, at the time, were two of Jazz greats, namely Bud Powell and Wynton Kelly while he also had an interest in Classical music. Dahl ones said: As a leader, he played and recorded with his own Carsten Dahl trio and Carsten Dahl Experience. He is also one of the most sought-after Jazz pianists as a sideman who worked/recorded with Ed Thigpen, Lars Danielsson, Arild Andersen, Ulf Wakenius, Bent Jædig, Miroslav Vitous, John Tchicai, Marc Ducret, Ray Anderson and Randy Brecker, Joe Lovano, Hugo Rasmussen and Bob Rockwell were among others.

Dahl won Ben Webster Prize in 1997. The Ben Webster Prize is an annual Jazz Award set up by the Ben Webster Foundation to honour Danish and American Jazz musicians as well as other professionals active in the promotion of Jazz in those countries. Dahl signed up with the music publishing house Edition Wilhelm Hansen in 2008.

Solo piano

 * 2003: Solo Piano (Stunt), Grammy Winner (3 CD)
 * 2005: Copenhagen-Aarhus- Carsten Dahl solo (Universal Music)
 * 2011: Effata (Storyville)

Collaborations

 * 1993: Minor Meeting (Grave News)
 * 1998: Will You Make My Soup Hot and Silver (Storyville)
 * 1999: Message From Bud (Pony Canyon)
 * 2000: Butterfly (Storyville)
 * 2000: Lys paa Himlen (Storyville)
 * 2001: Jazzpar 2000 Quintet (Storyville)
 * 2002: The Sign (Storyville)
 * 2002: The Butterfly Dream (Storyville)
 * 2002: The Sign (Stunt)
 * 2003: Moon Water (Stunt), Dahl/Andersen/Herald
 * 2003: The Library Bar Concerts (Stunt)
 * 2004: GinmanBlachmanDahl! (Verve)
 * 2004: Blue Train (Stunt)
 * 2004: Moon Water (Stunt)
 * 2006: Jazz-oratorium - I Den Lille By (Exlibris), Klaus Rifbjerg & Carsten Dahls Quintet
 * 2006: ''Det gyldne landskab (Stunt)
 * 2006: God Bless The Child (Stunt), as Carsten Dahl Trio feat. Bob Rockwell
 * 2006: Short Fairytales (EmArcy)
 * 2007: Bebopish Rubbish Rabbit (Stunt), as Carsten Dahl Trio
 * 2007: Tribute to Night Train (Ploug Partnership)
 * 2008: The Poetic Principle (Cowbell Music), Koppel/Vitous/Koppel/Dahl/Pasborg
 * 2009: Humilitas (Storyville), as Carsten Dahl Experience
 * 2011: Metamorphosis (Storyville), as Carsten Dahl Experience
 * 2012: Space Is The Place (Storyville)