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Trygve 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 ...
2010 Jarasum Jazz Festival, Gapeyong, South Korea

by Ian Patterson
Jarasum International Jazz Festival Jarasum Island, Gapeyong, South Korea October 15-17, 2010Jarasum International Jazz Festival was almost washed out by rain in its first edition in 2004, and after only three editions founder and director J.J. InSouth Korea's premier concert promotertook the bold step of selling his house to meet debts and ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyria

by Dan McClenaghan
On Stoa (ECM Records, 2005), Nik Bärtsch's Ronin offered up music made with a clock-like precision. Zen Funk, Ritual Groove Music--take your pick of descriptive tags--was meted out by a machine-like ensemble, using repetition and reduction and space sparked by the leader's punctuating, crystalline piano notes underlain, a great deal of the time, by a bass/contrabass ...
Karl Seglem: Ossicles

by John Kelman
Saxophonist and goat/antelope hornist Karl Seglem has led a long and diverse career, both as a recording artist and as the head of NORCD, a label that reaches across a multitude of musical boundaries looking to be broken, linking them together with a decided focus on the traditional music of his native Norway. Despite an increasingly ...
Portico Quartet: Montreal, Canada, October 2, 2010

by John Kelman
Portico QuartetL'AstralMontreal, CanadaOctober 2, 2010 It's a tough slog for a European band to break into the North American market. High work visa costs, expensive travel between cities distanced by hundreds--if not thousands--of miles add logistical nightmares to the fact that the North American market is so flooded with new ...
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum

by C. Michael Bailey
At first blush, there is really no reason the eutection of early a capella music and modern saxophone should work. It is antithetical, it makes no sense. However, wizards like Manfred Eicher, saxophonist and ECM stalwart Jan Garbarek, and early music mavens The Hilliard Ensemble not only defy the odds, they redefine them with a bit ...
Scott Lee: Leaving

by Mark Corroto
Maybe te annual jazz awards need to add a new category for musicians like Scott Lee. It could be titled master musicians deserving of wider recognition." The veteran bassist has been on the New York scene since the 1970s, and a member of numerous bands including those led by titans Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, and, Kenny ...
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum

by John Kelman
With the unexpected massive success of Officium (ECM, 1994), Jan Garbarek's first collaboration with The Hilliard Ensemble, it would be all too easy for the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal ensemble to rest on their not inconsiderable laurels, and simply repeat the formula. But while Officium featured a repertoire of structured early music--from Gregorian chant to ...
Take Five with Kjetil Husebø

by AAJ Staff
Meet Kjetil Husebø:35 years-old, from Bergen, Norway, currently living in Oslo. Pianist, synth, electronics, live-sampling, programming. Main project: Optical Substance. Instrument(s):Piano, synth, laptop, samplers, electronics.Teachers and/or influences?Jan Garbarek, Bendik Hofseth, Nils Petter Molvaer, Biosphere, Jan Bang, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset.I knew I wanted to ...
Various Artists: Into the Light - Korean Music III - Traditional Music & Korean Jazz

by Ian Patterson
Various Artists Into the Light: Korean Music III: Traditional Music & Korean Jazz KAMS 2010 Although the differences in beat, rhythm and harmony that separate traditional Korean music and jazz may partially explain why jazz has been approached only relatively recently in Korea, in fact Korean traditional musicians ...