Dan Karlsberg

From Cincinnati, Dan Karlsberg is an active performer, composer, and teacher. He currently has 5 albums under his own name, and has worked with such artists as Donald Harrison, Tim Warfield, JD Allen, Greg Tardy, Ignacio Berroa, Carl Allen, Terell Stafford, Jeremy Pelt, Sean Jones, Ted Nash, among many others. Karlsberg is currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

In July 2007, the Dan Karlsberg Group released their first album, The Adventures of the Dan Karlsberg Group, for which Marc Medwin in Cadence Magazine comments:

“This is a group functioning on the highest level of communication and commitment… they tackle freedom and restraint with equal vigor, convincing on whatever musical front they choose.”

Karlsberg has since released four more albums as leader, Mission to Mars and Other Short Stories (2010), The ‘Nati 6 (2015), Tales from the Winter Solstice (2018), and All In (2021). Tales from the Winter Solstice features JD Allen on tenor sax in a piano – drums – sax trio. The ‘Nati 6 features a group created by Karlsberg to perform his original music and to showcase the talent and traditions of the Cincinnati jazz scene. The ensemble is made up of veterans on the Cincinnati jazz scene today. In 2015, CityBeat magazine nominated The ‘Nati 6 for “album of the year”.

Awards

2007 CEA Cincinnati Entertainment Award: nominee in two categories (Jazz and Best New Artist) 2008, 2009, 2010 CEA Cincinnati Entertainment Award: nominee in Jazz category 2015 CEA Cincinnati Entertainment Award, nominated for album of the year (for the album, "The 'Nati 6")

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