Holiday Party, Huntsville December 14, 2007

The Curtis Institute's Brass Trio performs seasonal tunes while visitors enjoy holiday treats and gingerbread house decorating.

The all-Norwegian trio Huntsville has developed a striking and original sound world - a genuinely musical use of unexpected sounds and textures, allied with echoes of traditional genres in a radical new conceptual language. As a trio their performances reveal a groove-based approach with strong elements of composition, but this is no conventional guitar-bass-drums trio - audiences are bound to hear traces of folk, country, Indian ragas, contemporary music and more. The Frode Gjerstad Trio draws upon the energy of the free-jazz continuum as defined by Ornette, Mingus, Dolphy and Coltrane. With over 20 recordings as a leader, Gjerstad has established himself as a major saxophonist on the international scene.