Jazz Articles about Marius Neset

About Marius Neset

Album Review

Dopo tre dischi con ampi organici (London Sinfonietta, Norwegian Radio Orchestra e Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra) e il progetto cameristico condiviso col pianista classico Leif Ove Andsnes, il sassofonista norvegese riporta in vita il quintetto che nel 2022 ha realizzato Happy. Da allora l'organico s'è esibito più volte, sviluppando una fusion avanzata che trae linfa dalle estetiche di Weather Report e Steps Ahead. Se la seconda parte di Happy optava per caratteri contemplativi e suggestioni cameristiche, qui siamo sul ...

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Marius Neset: Cabaret

by Neil Duggan
February 26, 2025

Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset first captured the imagination with his 2011 album Golden Xplosion (Edition, 2011). Since then, his creative impetus has seen him release numerous albums, write pieces for large ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborate with classical pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and fulfill a busy touring schedule, winning multiple awards along the way. In 2022, he formed a quintet and released Happy (Act Music). The quintet featured one of the ...

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Food For Thought

by John Eyles
September 23, 2024

Where is the boundary between composed and improvised music? How many renowned improvisers use tried and trusted phrases that they have turned to so often that they have become cliches? How many classically-trained players are able to freely improvise despite never having been taught to do so? These and other similar questions are sure to be thrown up by the two albums below; one includes an improvised track that fits in alongside composed pieces while the other features a renowned ...

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Marius Neset: Geyser

by Chris May
October 13, 2023

Geyser is Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset's third album with new-music ensemble London Sinfonietta. The piece was commissioned for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where this recording was made on September 3, 2022. As on the two previous albums, the Sinfonietta are joined by Neset's high-voltage jazz quintet with pianist Ivo Neame, vibraphonist Jim Hart, bassist Conor Chaplin and drummers Anton Eger. Geyser is a striking wide-screen work that justifies the use of the frequently ...

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Arild Andersen: Affirmation

Read "Affirmation" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
May 8, 2023

Il contrabbassista norvegese Arild Andersen è uno dei protagonisti di quella generazione di musicisti (insieme a Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, Bobo Stenson, Edward Vesala) che grazie all'etichetta ECM, nel cui catalogo è presente con regolarità fin dal lontano 1971, ha contribuito all'affermazione del jazz scandinavo fino ad allora praticamente sconosciuto. Per il suo più recente progetto ha costituito un nuovo quartetto chiamando a sé alcuni musicisti, anch'essi norvegesi, appartenenti a generazioni successive alla sua, ma già completamente affermati ...

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Arild Andersen Group: Affirmation

Read "Affirmation" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
December 18, 2022

For almost half a century, Arild Andersen has been a pillar of Manfred Eicher's ECM label. His ECM albums have traversed dissimilar territory, from the brooding Shimri (1976), the folk-influenced Sagn (1990), to the orchestral grandeur of Live at Belleville (2008). At seventy-seven, the Norwegian bassist offers the almost entirely improvised Affirmation. Andersen is joined by tenor saxophonist Marius Neset, pianist Helge Lien, and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen. Andersen recorded with Lien on The Rose Window (Deutsche Media Productions, 2016) ...

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Arild Andersen Quartet: Affirmation

Read "Affirmation" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 12, 2022

Arild Andersen began his association with ECM Records in 1975, with the release of his album Clouds In My Head. He has released over 20 more recordings in a leadership role for the label, and has participated in even more albums--for ECM and other labels--in a sideman role, joining artists as diverse as pianists Bobo Stenson, Ketil Bjornstad and Yelena Eckemoff, saxophonists Jan Garbarek and Tommy Smith. trombonist Roswell Rudd and singer Sheila Jordan. He has proved himself a prolific ...