Marius Neset is one of the "most exciting artists in the jazz world" (Downbeat Magazine). Not only because the Norwegian saxophonist is a great improviser who brings together the fire of a Michael Brecker with the elegiac tone of a Jan Garbarek to create his very own sound language, but also because he is a gifted composer and arranger. With "Viaduct" he now connects these two worlds and builds a musical bridge on which jazz quintet and chamber orchestra meet furiously. "Viaduct" is a many-voiced play with contrasts, temperaments and timbres, a musical experience radiating with a spirit of invention. Work. Neset investigates the atonal and dissonant as well as the lyrical and delicate, in order to achieve a balance between the extremes. His virtuosity always serves the realization of a highly complex, but never top-heavy one, but soulful music, whose dynamics and rhythm captivates, and which despite all the astounding speed never inner glow.
