Marius Neset

Jazz saxophonist Marius Neset is also a composer whose music incorporates influences from contemporary classical styles, progressive rock, and other genres. He has been hailed as a successor to progressive jazz players like Michael Brecker and Jan Garbarek and even to the so-called Third Stream jazz-classical fusion composers of the 1960s. Neset was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1985. His father, Terje Neset, was a guitarist, and his mother, Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø, was a pianist; he had two sisters who became professional musicians. Growing up, he was influenced not only by mu...