The trio Min Bul, Terje Rypdal (guitar and soprano saxophone) Bjornar Andresen (bass) Espen Rud (drums), came out of a progressive environment of jazz and experimental music in the late 1960s surrounded by innovators such as Jan Garbarek, Karin Krog and Arne Norheim. The trio included some of the most important figures in the development of modern music in Norway in the late 1960s. Terje Rypdal was by now known from the groundbreaking Jan Garbarek quartet with bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Jon Christensen. All the four of them are today in the heavyweight league of European jazz. Drummer Espen Rud and bassist Bjornar Andresen came from the free-jazz group Svein Finnerud Trio, which performed regularly at Heine Onstad Art Centre outside of Oslo. The Finnerud Trio albums are, as the Min Bul album, cult classics for record collectors and listed high on the hard-to-get list. Today Terje Rypdal is recording regularly for the German ECM label. This spring he was invited to compose the opening concert at Norwegian jazz festival Vossajazz. Espen Rud is recording and performing with artists such as Knut Riisnaes and Staffan William Olsson. Bjornar Andresen is active in the Oslo-based improv scene and is to be found on the upcoming Jazzland release Samsara, which includes piano and keyboard player Bugge Wesseltoft and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Min+Bul">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.