Kresten Osgood - Plays the Organ for You (June 3, 2022 April Records)

One of Denmarks most prolific and influential musicians Kresten Osgood is releasing his first album as a Hammond organist on April Records.

Osgood is mostly known as a drummer and has been associated with(to name a few) Dr. Yusef Lateef, Paul Bley, Sam Rivers, Wadada Leo Smith, Lee Scratch Perry, Mouse on Mars and John Tchicai. He has a long history of playing drums with organists such as Dr. Lonnie Smith, Billy Preston and Sam Yahel but this is his first album playing the organ himself.

Its an album full of soulful and funky grooves and with a deep understanding of and respect for the idiom. Osgood is covering classic organ tunes such as "Wildfire" or "Play It Back" and also interpreting hit songs like "By the Time I get To Phoenix" and "Når lyset bryder frem" by danish rock icon Sebastian.

Guitarist Friodin Nordsø and drummer Ludomir Dietl are both well known pop producers on the danish scene. Fridolin is known from bands such as The William Blakes and Choir Of Young Believers. Ludomir is a freelancer and known from the band Late.

If you like funky soulful music and cant get enogh of the sound of the hammond organ.

This is the album to get!

1. Play it Back 03:35

2. Poinciana 04:36

3. Wildfire 05:43

4. Når lyset bryder frem 04:04

5. Baby Let Me Take You in My Arms 07:28

6. Onsaya Joy 02:38

7. Dansevise 05:23

8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix 04:23

Recorded at Njalsgade Studio A, Copenhagen, Denmark, March and April, 2020

Kresten Osgood: Hammond A102 Organ

Fridolin Nordsø: Guitar

Ludomir Dietl: Drums

Arto Eriksen: Percussion

Produced by Fridolin Nordsø

Recorded by Arto Eriksen

Mixed and Mastered by Fridolin Nordsø and Arto Eriksen

Photos by Henri Van Gelder

Cover design by Enrico Andreis

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Ran Blake / Kresten Osgood - The Dorothy Wallace Suite (ILK MUSIC 2017)

This is the much awaited duo album of Danish drum innovator Kresten Osgood and American piano genius Ran Blake. more than 40 years of age divide them, but they meet in a contemporary expression. The Dorothy Wallace Suite is a suite composed especially for this project by Ran Blake and is a heartfelt tribute to the great Dorothy Wallace who was a patron of the arts in Boston and played a vital part in Ran Blake´s art. This is only the second time in the entire Ran Blake discography where he plays duo with drums. The suite is recorded in Brookline on a piano of Ran Blake´s choice.

1 Symphony in Green  04:44

2 Vera Fuller  01:59

3 Ricky Ford at Logan  02:04

4 Bruni  01:49

5 The Carriage house  02:04

6 Brick in the Driveway  01:31

7 Ricks Room  03:10

8 The Demise of Rick Wallace  02:15

9 Ran´s Account  01:44

10 Eileen´s Account  02:05

11 The Door To The Forbidden Room  00:54

12 The Library at Midnight  01:16

13 Pannonica  02:26

14 Mood Indigo  04:32

15 Who  03:00

16 Dancing in the Dark  02:17

17 Never Can Say Goodbye 02:03

Butch Lacy / Jesper Løvdal / Kresten Osgood / Mark Dresser - Being Playing (2016)

PRESENT

Being Playing is a musical landscape that organically unfolds as a meditative story. The form is abstract and closer to the way of a modern classical composer than of straight ahead jazz.

This recording is a personal milestone for each of the musicians and opens up a new musical chapter in their musical odyssey.

The musicians come from different musical backgrounds, but do nevertheless have a clear mutual idea of how music has it’s own strong inner life, without the appearance of the musicians ego.

Mark Dresser is a legend in American improvised music and groundbreaking on the double bass, which he has given an entirely new voice. After many years of living in New York playing with Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Ray Andersson and John Zorn, he is now a professor at San Diego University where he met Butch Lacy 35 years ago.

Butch played at the time with Sarah Vaughan’s trio but shortly after he moved to Denmark where he has been living since. He has transformed the Danish jazz environment in many ways with his playing, as well as his charismatic teaching at conservatories all over the country. Butch Lacy has composed for both symphony orchestra and big band, and his Very Big Band. A combination of both was an important musical experiment in Denmark.

Jesper Løvdal is too young to have been taught by Butch Lacy in Copenhagen, but he was highly fascinated by his spiritual playing from a young age and has been playing duo with him for 10 years. When Mark Dresser, Butch Lacy and Jesper Løvdal met for a concert in Copenhagen where magic occurred from the first sound, it was a necessity to go into the studio and bring the young drummer that originally brought Butch and Jesper together, Kresten Osgood. Osgood has his roots in jazz but plays with an universal artistic expression which lives very much in the present moment, and melts together with the rest of the band.

Butch Lacy: piano

Jesper Løvdal: alto flute, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet

Mark Dresser: bass

Kresten Osgood: drums

Wizard of Os

Lacy Dresser

Being

Playing

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Butch Lacy / Jesper Løvdal / Kresten Osgood / Mark Dresser - Being Playing (2016)

PRESENT

Being Playing is a musical landscape that organically unfolds as a meditative story. The form is abstract and closer to the way of a modern classical composer than of straight ahead jazz.

This recording is a personal milestone for each of the musicians and opens up a new musical chapter in their musical odyssey.

The musicians come from different musical backgrounds, but do nevertheless have a clear mutual idea of how music has it’s own strong inner life, without the appearance of the musicians ego.

Mark Dresser is a legend in American improvised music and groundbreaking on the double bass, which he has given an entirely new voice. After many years of living in New York playing with Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Ray Andersson and John Zorn, he is now a professor at San Diego University where he met Butch Lacy 35 years ago.

Butch played at the time with Sarah Vaughan’s trio but shortly after he moved to Denmark where he has been living since. He has transformed the Danish jazz environment in many ways with his playing, as well as his charismatic teaching at conservatories all over the country. Butch Lacy has composed for both symphony orchestra and big band, and his Very Big Band. A combination of both was an important musical experiment in Denmark.

Jesper Løvdal is too young to have been taught by Butch Lacy in Copenhagen, but he was highly fascinated by his spiritual playing from a young age and has been playing duo with him for 10 years. When Mark Dresser, Butch Lacy and Jesper Løvdal met for a concert in Copenhagen where magic occurred from the first sound, it was a necessity to go into the studio and bring the young drummer that originally brought Butch and Jesper together, Kresten Osgood. Osgood has his roots in jazz but plays with an universal artistic expression which lives very much in the present moment, and melts together with the rest of the band.

Butch Lacy: piano

Jesper Løvdal: alto flute, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet

Mark Dresser: bass

Kresten Osgood: drums

Wizard of Os

Lacy Dresser

Being

Playing

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