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Infobox musical artist | name = Jan Garbarek| image = Jan Garbarek-2007-2.jpg| caption = Jan Garbarek live in Athens, 2007| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1947|3|4|birth_place = Mysen , Norway | death_date =| origin = Oslo , Norway | instrument = soprano saxophone , tenor saxophone | occupation = saxophonist , composer , record producer|producer | years_active = 1966–present| label = ECM Records|ECM , Flying Dutchman Records|Flying Dutchman | associated_acts = George Russell (composer)|George Russell , Terje Rypdal , Bobo Stenson , Keith Jarrett , Ralph Towner , Eberhard Weber , Bill Frisell , David Torn , Gary Peacock , Hilliard Ensemble | website = http://www.garbarek.com www.garbarek.com| notable_instruments = bass saxophone , clarinet , flute Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947)cite book|last=Hultin|first=Randi|title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 2|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|pages=11-12|chapter=Garbarek, Jan is a Norway|Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophone|saxophonist , active in the jazz , european classical music|classical , and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen , Norway , the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czeslaw Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Effectively stateless until the age of seven (there was no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway at that time) Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. His daughter Anja Garbarek is also a musician.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6554/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic biography
Biography
Garbarek's sound is one of the hallmarks of the ECM Records label, which has released virtually all of his recordings. His style incorporates a sharp-edged tone, long, keening, sustained notes, and generous use of silence. He began his recording career in the late 1960s, notably featuring on recordings by the American jazz composer George Russell (composer)|George Russell (such as Othello Ballet Suite and Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature ). If he had initially appeared as a devotee of Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann , by 1973 he had turned his back on the harsh dissonances of avant-garde jazz , retaining only his tone from his previous approach. Garbarek gained wider recognition through his work with pianist Keith Jarrett 's European Quartet which released the albums Belonging (album)|Belonging (1974), My Song (Keith Jarrett album)|My Song (1977) and the live recordings Personal Mountains (1979), and Nude Ants (1979).Yanow, S. Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6554/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic Biography accessed 5 November 2009 He was also a featured soloist on Jarrett's orchestral works Luminessence (album)|Luminessence (1974) and Arbour Zena (1975) http://www.jazzdisco.org/keith-jarrett/discography/ Keith Jarret discography accessed 5 November 2009
As a composer, Garbarek tends to draw heavily from Scandinavia n folk melodies, a legacy of his Ayler influence. He is also a pioneer of ambient jazz composition, most notably on his 1976 album Dis (album)|Dis a collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner that featured the distinctive sound of a Aeolian harp|wind harp on several tracks. This textural approach, which rejects traditional notions of thematic improvisation (best exemplified by Sonny Rollins ) in favour of a style described by critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton as "sculptural in its impact", has been critically divisive. Garbarek's more meandering recordings are often labeled as New Age music , a style generally scorned by more orthodox jazz musicians and listeners, or spiritual ancestors thereof. Other experiments have included setting a collection of poems of Olav H. Hauge to music, with a single saxophone complementing a full mixed choir; this has led to notable performances with Grex Vocalis , but not yet to recordings. In the 1980s, Garbarek's music began to incorporate synthesizer s and elements of world music . He has collaborated with Indian and Pakistani musicians such as Trilok Gurtu , Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain , Hariprasad Chaurasia , and Ustad Fateh Ali Khan . Garbarek is credited for composing original music for the 2000 film Kippur .
In 1994, during heightened popularity of Gregorian chant , his album Officium (album)|Officium , a collaboration with early music vocal performers the Hilliard Ensemble , became one of ECM's biggest-selling albums of all time, reaching the pop charts in several European countries and was followed by a sequel, Mnemosyne (album)|Mnemosyne , in 1999. In 2005, his album In Praise of Dreams was nominated for a Grammy award|Grammy . Garbarek's first live album Dresden (album)|Dresden was released in 2009.
Awards & honors
In 1999, Garbarek was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav and in 2004 he was awarded the Norwegian Arts Council award.
http://trovar.com/ECM/ECM.php? artist=garbarek Jan Garbarek on ECM Records
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http://www.garbarek.com/ Jan Garbarek Group
http://www.anjagarbarek.com Jan Garbarek's daughter, singer Anja Garbarek
http://www.mixtape.gr/t.asp? sec=1& sub=3& uid=57 Jan Garbarek Group @ Theatre Lycabettus concert review, Greece
s-starts-ach|aws-bef | before = Jon Fosse s-ttl | title = Recipient of the Norsk kulturråds ærespris | years = 2004 s-aft | after = Agnes Buen Garnås endJan Garbarek Persondata | NAME =Garbarek, Jan | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =4 March 1947 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Mysen , Norway | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Garbarek, Jan Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:People from Eidsberg Category:Avant-garde jazz musicians Category:Knights First Class of the Order of St. Olav Category:Spellemannprisen winners Category:Norwegian people of Polish descent Category:Freedom Records artists Category:ECM artists Category:Norwegian jazz saxophonists Category:Norwegian jazz musicians
