Marius Neset Band

Marius Neset: Saxophones
Ivo Neame: Piano
Jasper Hoiby: Bass
Anton Eger: Drums

Marius Neset is increasingly regarded as a major emerging voice on the European jazz scene.

It’s not just the virtuoso technique that impresses, although that is already at a level few saxophonists can live with. Nor is it just Neset’s distinctiveness as a composer. Both these aspects are part of a package that is given shape and focus by that indefinable extra factor that adds up to a unique musical personality.

Marius Neset is just 25 years old, yet as a musician and composer he brings an astonishing maturity to all his work.

As a composer, Neset’s influences are similarly diverse – Django Bates (with whom he studied composition), Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa and also Bach, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Yet already, Neset has absorbed these influences and found his own musical language for expressing their virtues.

A multi-award winner, since graduating from RMC, Marius Neset has pursued his musical goals through different bands.

“Marius Neset combines Brecker’s power and Jan Garbarek’s tonal delicacy, but has a vision that makes all 11 originals on this sensational album feel indispensable, and indispensably connected to each other. Neset is on his way to being one of the biggest new draws on the circuit”. ***** John Fordham, The Guardian