Kim Pedersen
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 markpoint in danish jazz and shows his freeplaying strongly -something that he would put aside for some years to go deep in 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 claimed two highlytrio 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 Be Bop pish RubbishRabbit. They also recorded af quartet CD with Bob Rockwell.Along with Thomas Blachman and Lennart Ginman he achieved great success in the trio Ginman Blachman Dahl, earning a reputation for fiery liveperformances. Somehow he found the time to reunite with his old teacher and drum mentor Ed Thigpen and his trio, including Joe Lovano. For the mid-90'sand well into the 00's Carsten played with a great range of artists.