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Carl Petter Opsahl: Love, The Blues
by Eyal Hareuveni
Love, The Blues is the third part of Norwegian priest and clarinetist Carl Petter Opsahl's trilogy, and is dedicated by him to God. A deeply moving treatise on the blues, this is not blues in its traditional and well-trodden scales and rhythms--even though Opsahl began his professional career as a musician in New Orleans, and even became a member of the All Star Brass Band--but blues in its innermost essence. This is blues as a music of transforming belief, as ...
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