ARTIST PROFILE
Marius Neset
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).
ARTIST REVIEWS
Golden Xplosion
"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."
Marius Neset Quartet, The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, 03/09/2011.
"Marius Neset looks set to become one of the major figures of European jazz in the coming years. "
JAZZ MANN FEATURES
In praise of the jam session: reflections on Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2012
Guest contributor Mark McKergow, host of the legendary Cheltenham Jazz Festival jam sessions at the Hotel du Vin, writes on the importance of the culture of the jam session.
London Jazz Festival 2011
Ian Mann enjoys five days of fantastic music at the 2011 London Jazz Festival.
