The long-awaited return of Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset arrives in an expansive big band setting, a format that underscores both his ambition and his growing confidence as a large-scale orchestrator. Known for music of formidable complexity, Neset here introduces a more openly festive dimension, without sacrificing the structural rigor that has long defined his work.
Few could have predicted such an outcome when Neset was five years old. At that age, the future saxophonist was handed a drum kit, an early encounter with rhythm that would quietly shape his musical thinking. That grounding remains audible today. Whether writing for a jazz quintet, a symphony orchestra, or, as here, a big band that often sounds closer to a full…

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