Time Out Ten
Sweet Lorraine
Karsten Vogel
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
Danish saxophonist saxophonist Karsten Vogel has released an album of Late Night Ballads that contains some ideal music for this month's ten minute time out with tunes we know and some lovely improvisation.
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With a career spanning more than six decades, Karsten is one of the true veterans of Scandinavian music. British jazz critic Richard Williams once wrote in Melody Maker: “There aren’t many alto saxophonists to whom I’d rather be listening. He has a lovely tone – slender, fibrous and very human – and a shallow vibrato: a highly distinctive combination.” And yet Karsten's alto saxophone sound has been heard across rock, jazz, and jazz-related genres on more than 75 releases, and his career has taken him far beyond Denmark’s borders, with concerts across Europe, the USA, Japan, and India. He is widely known as a founding member of legendary jazz-rock bands Burnin Red Ivanhoe and Secret Oyster.
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But here, with Mads Søndergaard (piano); Peter Hansen (bass) and Klaus Menzer (drums), his album of seven classic ballads from the American songbook and one original composition (Open 24 hrs), Karsten brings us music for relaxing - late night - or any time.
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The album Late Night Ballads was released on the Storyville label in February. Listen to Sweet Lorraine in your ten minute time out:​
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