Mats Gustafsson January 31, 2009

Sweden's Mats Gustafsson is one of the world's biggest names on the free music scene. His extended saxophone techniques draw equally from the fiery free jazz blowing tradition as well as the European microtonal schools, reinventing the playing of the instrument along the way. Through groups such as The Thing, Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet, Barry Guy New Orchestra, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, Original Silence (with Terrie Ex and Jim O'Rourke) and collaborations with Sonic Youth, Joe McPhee and The Boredoms, Gustafsson is one of the most powerful saxophonists working today.