Marius Neset & The Norwegian Radio Orchestra - Summer Dance (Live) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 361 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:52
Contemporary Jazz | Label: ACT Music
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 361 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:52
Contemporary Jazz | Label: ACT Music
The Norwegian Marius Neset has split his career between cool Scandi jazz and adventurous composition for symphony orchestras, gaining considerable acclaim for both. Here he combines the two, putting his quartet in the centre of a complex soundscape played by the versatile Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the British conductor Geoffrey Paterson. Mostly a series of musical portraits, it is an ear-opening, often beautiful listen. Complex work is drawn from the simplest of themes. A Day in the Sparrow’s Life imitates the jerky, carefree behaviour of the bird with a folk dance that expands into a skirmish of contrapuntal melodies. The two-part It Looks Like Glass is a brilliant evocation of the material’s occasionally sinister sheen.