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Kallerdahl
Kallerdahl / Seglem / Ulvo / Hole / Sjovaag: Skoddeheimen
by John Kelman
With NORSKjazz.no (Ozella Music, 2009), veteran saxophonist, producer, label head and goat horn virtuoso Karl Seglem brought a distinctive Norwegian flavor to the conventional sax/piano/bass/drums format. By recruiting younger players, Seglem ensured the continuance of his country's jazz tradition--one as imbued by folkloric elements and dark classicism as it is the American vernacular--through the increasingly endangered process of mentoring. For NORSKJazz.no, Seglem enlisted the preexistent chemistry of Eple Trio, whose The Widening Sphere of Influence, released on Seglem's own NORCD ...
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