Karl Denson

Sprightly, up-tempo acid jazz with smooth and pop styles filling in the spaces in-between beats, samples and funky grooves. Denson puts his personal, soulful stamp on a genre all too often lost in slick production techniques. Dance Lesson #2 will move even the most lead-foot dancers among us.

Those who have heard Karl Denson's ferociously unfettered sax playing with his band Tiny
Universe (or even in a more regimented setting with Lenny Kravitz) tend to be persuaded
that he's one of the artists who will be keeping jazz vital in this new century. Unlike other
players who are easily pigeonholed, Denson's sole musical agenda seems to be finding what
works. On Dance Lesson #2, his first major-label release, what works is a series... More >