THE BADGERS - Kresten Osgood, drums - Anssi Karttunen, cello - Lucas Dann, piano.


Anything could have happened when these three musicians sat down to play in Amsterdam. They had never played one note together. Lucas had played with Anssi and with Kresten and he thought something interesting should come from the meeting of the three. Not only was he right, he turned out to be visionary; it was like they had played all their lives together. A 50-minute set of listening, reacting, inventing, discovering, enjoying. Listen and judge for yourself:


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TWO BADGERS - Anssi Karttunen, cello - Lucas Dann, piano


Lucas and Anssi met to play in Köniz, Switzerland and were instantly onto something special. No discussion necessary, music flows from their mindswhich are so inpregnated by all different kinds of styles that it would make no sense to describing it. Listen yourself:


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The Badgers

Kresten Osgood - Anssi Karttunen - Lucas Dann



www.karttunen.org

 

Kresten Osgood is one of these musicians who at the same time defy and totally own categories. An extraordinary drummer and improviser who with the fullest respect to tradition, challenges it at any given moment of his creative endeavors. He has about a 100 albums to his credit, toured practically everywhere, has been performing and/or recording with legends like Roscoe Mitchell, Paul Bley, Lee Scratch Perry, William Parker, Masabumi Kikuchi, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Jason Moran, Michael Blake, Oliver Lake, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Tchicai, Tim Berne, Justin Vernon, Peter Brötzman, Joshua Redman, Eugene Chadbourne, Billy Preston, Alan Silva, Brad Mehldau, Mats Gustafsson, Bennie Maupin, The National, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Sam Rivers, Henry Grimes, Dr. Yusef Lateef, Warren Smith, and many many others.

But even that doesn't really cover the full spectrum of what he has been up to in his career. A successful rapper, composer, pianist, vocalist, saxophonist and trumpeter, a true multi-instrumentalist, a powerful organizer being an extremely important driving force in lifting and pushing the music life in Copenhagen forward, entertainer with his own shows in TV and radio, receiver of numerous awards and honors, A very sharp kaleidoscope man, regardless of the context always realizing his fullest potential.

https://www.krestenosgood.com/

Pianist Lucas Dann was born in Toronto, Canada in 1997. After moving to Europe in 2015 he received a Bachelors degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as well as a European Union Jazz Masters degree split between Københavns Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. His most recent performances have been a series of completely improvised solo piano concerts. In the European avant garde community, current collaborators of Dann’s include cellist Anssi Karttunen, pianist Harmen Fraanje, drummer Kresten Osgood and artist Goodiepal. Dann's discography ranges from the music of Thelonious Monk, original composition, to free music with a new live recording released in July of 2022 on Elastic Records entitled “solo”.


https://www.lucasdannmusic.com