Karl Seglem is a Norwegian jazz musician, composer, and producer born on July 8, 1961, in Årdalstangen. He achieved professional recognition for a musical style that combines jazz with traditional music and for playing the tenor saxophone and the bukkehorn. Seglem achieved professional recognition for a career that began after he studied music at Voss Folk High School between 1978 and 1980. During the 1980s, he achieved professional recognition for collaborating with the musicians Kenneth Sivertsen, Arvid Genius, and Knut Kristiansen, and for leading the ensemble Growl. Seglem achieved professional recognition for founding the independent label NorCD in 1991. His recording career included the debut studio recording Poems for Trio (1988), recorded with the musicians Kåre Thomsen and Ole Amund Gjersvik. Seglem achieved professional recognition for a long-standing collaboration with the percussionist Terje Isungset in the ensemble Isglem and for the trio Utla with the fiddler Håkon Høgemo. His discography included the studio recording Rit (1994) and the studio recording Prosa (1996), which featured the poet Jon Fosse. He achieved professional recognition for receiving the Gammleng-prisen in 1998 and the Edvard Prize in 1998 for the project TYA. Seglem's recording career included the studio recording REIK (2005), the studio recording URBS (2006), and the studio recording Som spor (2014). He achieved professional recognition for receiving the Buddyprisen in 2010 and the Kardemommestipendet in 2019.
