Mats Gustafsson April 19, 2007

Mats Gustafsson is a saxophonist. Singer John Corbett is better known for his acting than his songwriting. He played the existential DJ Chris Stevens on five seasons of 'Northern Exposure.' Over the years he's been seen in films like 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' or as Aiden Shaw on 'Sex and the City,' but his acting career takes a back seat to his true love, music. Coming from a musical family of six sisters and brothers, and a father who played the organ, he started to play piano and guitar at an early age. He switched over to the bass guitar, playing in a gospel choir in his hometown when he was 12. At 18 he moved to norwegian city Trondheim, where he picked up the acoustic bass, and decided he wanted to study at the music academy there, a school that has shaped many of the influental figureheads of the norwegian contemporary scene today. In 1992 he got into the school, and studied there for three years with bassplayer Odd Magne Gridseth, saxophonist Jon-Paal Inderberg and pianist Erling Aksdal. Joe McPhee is a brilliant improvising musician who plays many instruments - including saxophones, trumpets, valve trombone, clarinet, piano and sometimes electronics.