Jazz Articles about The Source

The Master Musicians of Jajouka: The Source

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 3, 2010

I Master Musicians of Jajouka piombano nella vita musicale dell'occidente alla fine degli anni Sessanta, quando la loro tradizione musicale trova - da William Burroughs a Ornette Coleman, passando per Brian Jones (che ne fece la fortuna discografica pure se era già morto) - un varco felicissimo nei cuori e nelle orecchie voraci di un pubblico che apprezza molto esotismo e trance. Da allora, i musicisti di questa piccola comunità montana marocchina, luogo dove rifugiarsi e dove trovare nuove energie, ...

The Source: The Source

by Budd Kopman
July 13, 2006

The music that makes up this most delightful and peculiar album is both paradoxical and enigmatic. Everything seems to fit together and make sense, and yet the musical world thus created is unfamiliar. While it has density and gravity, the music feels like it's almost not there. After experiencing the album, you might ask yourself what just happened. What is it about this music that kept my total attention and yet slipped right through my fingers? The ...

The Source: The Source

by John Kelman
June 21, 2006

Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim turned heads with his two recordings as a leader, Different Rivers (ECM, 2000), and Sangam (ECM, 2004). But these richly composed discs reveal but one aspect of his work. Though he claimed in a 2005 interview not to “find soloing in the traditional manner particularly interesting," the Source--his decade-old cooperative with trombonist Øyvind Brække and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen--would seem to belie that statement.

Or does it? The Source, the group's followup to The Source and ...

The Source: The Source

by Nic Jones
June 14, 2006

There were days when albums customarily started with the proverbial flagwaver or something evocative of barns being stormed, but The Source is a radically different proposition. Trombonist Oyvind Braekke's “Caballero" is built around a simple, plodding figure played on bowed bass in tandem with faintly martial drumming. Within the scope of its soundscape, the flags only flap disconsolately, and it's probably best not to think about what might be lurking in the barn.

In the course of its existence, this ...