Jostein Gulbrandsen - Twelve (2006)

Currently living in New York, Norwegian guitarist Jostein Gulbrandsen is an active musician immerse in the Nu-Jazz scene. He co leads the band Randal and is working on several other projects as the Matt Grason Motel Project, that features rappers like Kokaiy (Steve Coleman), Sub Z and John Moon (Dapp Theory), at the time his recording debut as leader Twelve, shows the light. Gulbrandsen plays highly expressive, rhymically complex avant-jazz that sound fresh despite its indebtedness to the downtown New York scene.

Jostein Gulbrandsen (g), Jon Irabagon (ts, cl), Eivind Opsvik (b), Jeff Davis (d)