Jazz Articles about Trygve Seim
About Trygve Seim
Instrument: Saxophone
Article Coverage | Calendar | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsSigurd Hole: Roraima
by David Bruggink
Norwegian upright bassist Sigurd Hole has stood out in the recent past as both a contributor (with his elegant performance on Tord Gustavsen's 2018 ECM album, The Other Side) and bandleader (through his 2018 Elvesang album Encounters). His solo explorations are equally noteworthy, as on the wide-ranging double album Lys / Mørke (Elvesang, 2020). Recorded on the remote arctic islands of Fleinvær, he thoughtfully probed the relationship between the high-pitched harmonics and drones of his instrument and the spectral winds ...
read moreTrygve Seim: Helsinki Songs
by Neri Pollastri
È molto lirico questo Helsinki Songs, ultimo lavoro del sassofonista norvegese Trygve Seim, ormai pilastro dell'etichetta ECM sia per presenza nel catalogo, sia per come contribuisce a svilupparne l'estetica. Qui il musicista scandinavo si presenta per la prima volta alla testa di un classico quartetto, che vede al pianoforte Kristjan Randalu, quarantenne estone cresciuto in Germania, al contrabbasso il suo connazionale Mats Eilertsen e alla batteria il finlandese Markku Ounaskari. Il disco arriva a due anni dal riuscito ...
read moreTrygve Seim: Helsinki Songs
by Mike Jurkovic
Before revealing its more inert, contemplative rewards, Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim opens Helsinki Songs, his sixth disc for ECM as a leader/co-leader, with the rolling, pop-ish dance of “Sol's Song," sounding immediately recognizable, like a well-known theme song to some long gone sitcom or movie. Written mostly in the grand Finnish capital, Helsinki Songs' eleven ethereal compositions quietly reflect the moody, autumnal characteristics of their surroundings. To serve the songs and their heightened sense of time and space, ...
read moreTrygve Seim: Rumi Songs
by Neri Pollastri
Negli ultimi anni si sono moltiplicate in casa ECM produzioni nelle quali musicisti di estrazione jazz si uniscono ad altri di formazione classica per lavorare su progetti che a loro volta fondono il sacro e il profano, l'Occidente e l'Oriente. L'ultimo lavoro del sassofonista norvegese Trygve Seim appartiene senza dubbio a questo tipo di lavori, ma ha la caratteristica di essere un progetto di lungo corso, cosa dalla quale probabilmente dipende anche la sua eccellente riuscita. Si tratta ...
read moreTrygve Seim: Rumi Songs
by Mark Sullivan
Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim may lack the marquee status of countryman (and fellow ECM artist) Jan Garbarek. But he is no less adventurous, and has recently been popping up all over on 2016 ECM releases: on Mats Eilertsen's Rubicon; with Sinikka Langeland and the Trio Medieval on The Magical Forest; with Iro Haarla and symphony orchestra on Ante Lucem; and now on his own Rumi Songs. Seim composed his first settings of the poetry of 13th century poet and mystic ...
read moreTrygve Seim - Andreas Utnem: Purcor - Songs for Saxophone and Piano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Parte da lontano questo lavoro in duo tra il ben noto sassofonista norvegese Trygve Seim e il connazionale Andreas Utnem, pianista di chiesa, autore di musiche per teatro e cinema, occasionalmente anche jazzista. I due, nel 1997, ebbero occasione di suonare assieme nella chiesa in cui Utnem lavorava; l'incontro ebbe esiti interessanti e venne poi ripetuto per anni, quasi con regolarità, così da affinare sensibilità e affiatamento tra due musicisti con formazioni ed esperienze assai diverse. Finalmente, undici anni dopo ...
read moreTrygve Seim / Andreas Utnem: Purcor: Songs for Saxophone and Piano
by John Kelman
Since emerging on the label with his own large ensemble and as part of the collaborative, more improv-heavy group The Source, saxophonist Trygve Seim has been a leading voice in the second wave of Norwegian artists who look to legacy ECM musicians like Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen and Terje Rypdal as touchstones, but possess unmistakable voices of their own. Albums like the superb Sangam (2005) spotlighted Seim's distinctive compositional approach, taking the unorthodox instrumentation of Edward Vesala (with whom Seim ...
read moreShowcase
Contest Giveaway
Days remaining: 23
