Karl Dappen

Saxophone

karldappen@aol.com 

Karl has been playing professionally for many years, performing solo and with several pop, rock, blues and jazz groups.  He spent three years touring the Midwest, south and northeast with a ten piece show band, playing in the rock/dance format.  Along with the SwingBlade duo, Karl has performed with bands like the Jazzcasters, a four-piece jazz combo.   

Supported by custom-designed musical arrangements and additional electronic equipment, Karl’s music can sound like a jazz quartet or a full orchestra.  Using a wide range of musical styles from adult contemporary, light jazz, standards, to classic rock, or any favorite song, this talented musician takes an audience from the ever popular standards “Summertime” and “Take Five” to the bluesy “Moondance”, and “Masquerade”, then on to the contemporary latin sounds of  “Shaker Song”, the classic rock “Green-Eyed Lady” and “Deacon Blues”  and into the Swing tempos of “In The Mood (Medley)” and “Satin Doll”.

Karl has three CDs available - Judiciary Street and laidbacklatenight are inventive approaches incorporating digitally mastered sequences as background music for his saxophone solos.  His third CD, Sounds of Christmas, is a collection of classic holiday favorites using the same music format.   

In the past several years, Karl has performed at the following venues:

·                    Verandas Restaurant                                        Apalachicola. Florida

 ·          Harry A's                                                            St. George Island, Florida

·                     Angelo and Sons Restaurant                          Panacea, Florida

·                     The Coastal Oasis Lounge                              Apalachicola, Florida

·                     Eddie Teach's                                                    St. George Island , Florida

·                     Brio's                                                                  Newport, Kentucky  

·                    Applewood Restaurant                                    Aurora, Indiana

·                     Jag's                                                                   West Chester, Ohio

·                     Cabana on the River                                         Saylor Park, Ohio

·                     20 Mile House                                                    Montgomery, Ohio

·                     Havana Martini Club                                         Cincinnati, Ohio 

·                     Kenwood Country Club                                   Cincinnati, Ohio

·                     Fort Mitchell Country Club                              Cincinnati, Ohio

...An accomplished musician in the studio, Karl served as associate producer and is featured on original CD compilations by other regional musicians.  Hear him on the WolfTales and WolfTales 2 CDs by original artist and arranger Ashton Wolf.  The CD compilations included several guest artists from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

      For more information, event booking or CD orders, please email Karl at

karldappen@aol.com

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