Young Norwegian saxophonist and composer recently signed to Edition Records.His second album “Golden Xplosion” released on Edition April 2011 with an all star band featuring Django Bates (piano, keyboards, trumpet, e flat peckhorn) and the Phronesis rhythm section of Jasper Hoiby ( bass ) and Anton Eger (drums).
Follow up “Birds” (Edition, 2013) is an even more ambitious affair featuring an extended ensemble including Hoiby, Eger, Ivo Neame (piano) and Jim Hart (vibes).
“Lion” (ACT, 2014) was recorded with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.
“Pinball” (ACT, 2015) features Neame, Eger, Hart, Petter Eldh (bass) and guests.
"A highly promising album from a musician with awesome technical abilities plus the ambition as a composer to make them count.One senses that Neset is something of a star in the making."
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"Marius Neset looks set to become one of the major figures of European jazz in the coming years. "
LIVE
"A grandly ambitious work that succeeds superbly thanks to both the brilliance of the writing and arranging but also the phenomenal playing of a truly outstanding ensemble."
ALBUM
"Neset is a star in the making, a remarkably consistent and hard working performer who seems to have the drive to match his undoubted musical talents. "
LIVE
"An exhilarating blend of audacious compositional imagination and virtuoso musicianship. "Pinball" might just be Marius Neset's best album yet."
ALBUM