Home » Jazz Articles » Trygve Seim
Jazz Articles about Trygve Seim
Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon
by John Kelman
It's no news to learn that we're the confluence of our many experiences: life, love, music....everything that we are comes from where we've been, what we've done, what we've experienced. That said, it doesn't mean that we can't move in completely new directions or try something completely foreign to us. Still, it's almost impossible to do anything--even things that are intentionally new and different--without there being some inescapable links to our past. With Mats Eilertsen's evocative Rubicon, the double bassist ...
Continue ReadingTrygve 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 ...
Continue ReadingTrygve 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 ...
Continue ReadingTrygve Seim - Frode Haltli: Yeraz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un duo molto particolare, questo dei due giovani norvegesi Trigve Seim e Frode Haltli. Un duo già visto all'opera, con piacere, al festival Jazz&Wine of Peace di Cormons e che su disco conferma, anzi perfeziona quanto di buono aveva mostrato dal vivo. Dei due, il sassofonista Trygve Seim è il più noto, impostosi grazie ai suoi eccellenti Different Rivers e Sangam (al quale, peraltro, prendeva parte anche Haltli), ma anche per le frequenti collaborazioni con artisti ECM (da Manu Katché ...
Continue ReadingTrygve Seim / Frode Haltli: Yeraz
by John Kelman
On the surface saxophone and accordion together might seem unusual, but it's really a perfect combination. Both are reed instruments driven by air--one blowing, the other compressing or expanding a bellows. Saxophonist Trygve Seim and accordionist Frode Haltli have been collaborating for some time, notably in the saxophonist's ensemble responsible for Sangam (ECM, 2004). Despite no shortage of acumen, Seim's a self-avowed improvisational ascetic whose primary focus has been detailed composition and the integration of controlled improvisation within more formal ...
Continue ReadingThe Source: The Source
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Ornette sotto ghiaccio”: questo viene in mente ascoltando le prime tracce di questo eccellente disco di The Source, quartetto scandinavo attivo dal 1993 e giunto al secondo disco per ECM, che include il sassofonista Trygve Seim, ormai sempre più onnipresente protagonista della scena nordica. Il gruppo, infatti, oltre a presentarsi molto simile già nella formazione al quartetto del fondatore del free jazz, nei primi brani ne segue le architetture, facendo ruotare attorno alle linee disegnate dal contrabbasso dell'ottimo Mats Eilertsen, ...
Continue ReadingTrygve Seim: Sangam
by Dennis Hollingsworth
Trygve Seim is a Norwegian saxophonist whose first recording, Distant Rivers received very positive press in 2001. Sangam, which means “coming together" in Sanskrit, is his second release as a leader. It is an apt title, as this recording demonstrates a vast combination of styles. The instrumentation alone gives the music a unique quality. Accordion, bass saxophone, contrabass clarinet, cello, string ensemble, tuba, french horn, trombone, clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, and drums converge to create a flowing, ethereal picture that ...
Continue Reading
