Dag Hammaskjold

«Pentagon Tapes»? Stay calm! The title makes no reference to secret surveillance or lethal covert operations inside the most secretive building on the planet. This Pentagon is the Pentagon room in the abundantly fine art-supplied Reksten Collections Building in Bergen, Norway. Blessed with nice acoustics and equipped with a Steinway Grand, the Pentagon room became the recording studio where pianist Dag Arnesen, bassist Ole Marius Sandberg and drummer Ivar Thormodsæter laid down the tracks for this album in September 2016. For Dag Arnesen (b. 1950), «Pentagon Tapes» represents a welcome return to playing jazz within the modern, American-originated idiom that he has mastered so well ever since his breakthrough on the Norwegian jazz scene in the mid-70s. Not that he ever completely abandoned it, but for several years, his highly successful «Norwegian Song» concept kept him very busy interpreting folk songs and the folk-inspired music of Edvard Grieg, Geirr Tveitt and a few other composers into his own musical language.

The Wonderful World Of D. Finn is the 1991 debut album by Swedish man Dag Finn. This was also his last album. It was released by Mercury Records.

The bassoon is generally regarded as the joker in the orchestra. It can cackle, growl unwillingly, sing bass arias in the deepest cellar and crow at the highest heights the next moment.