by Tom D'Antoni
by Tom D'Antoni February 28, 2010, music - Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli Seim and Haltli in your sound recording. PJF Photo Fran Kaufman
Were the addition of chairs on the back of the room moments before the concert began. Not that I have been delays in implementation was to take account of this Wold were those of standees. This is not a huge room, but Norse hall was completely packed and the audience amazingly quiet as Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli on stage with sax and accordion.
That's how Saturday Portland Jazz Festival has begun.
The audience was absolutely quiet for the next 25 minutes or if the two are a living example of ECM old slogan, "The most beautiful sound of silence."
It is sometimes suggested the music, rather than played. E 'was the opposite, for example, Friday night Mingus Big Band. But you know what? This is one of the beauties of jazz. Both live in the house.
Photos of PJF Fran Kaufman
There were long drones and deep Haltli's accordion, saxophone, muted tones ranging Seim, sometimes together, sometimes separately. You could not really talk when they played separately "only" in the traditional sense of the word. They filled the space where the other had been.
Do not be afraid to call this Jazz "Camera". Their music has all the best aspects of both, have focused on jazz, "because the music is improvised.
Some of their music is based on Scandinavian folk music. If Charles Ives was a musician when they suddenly wrote Billy the Kid, would have proposed something similar. Remember Landmark Bill Frisell's Have a Little Faith In Me "album? Ives would like an improvised version.
Thus, the music evolves. Two Norwegians, taking the folk music of their culture, which passes through the filter of jazz. The result has been an enthusiastic public, which accounts for something new and, of course, love it.
About the author
Tom D'Antoni is editor of the Oregon Music News
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