Jazz Articles about Jan Harbeck

About Jan Harbeck

Album Review

Martin Lutz Group: LoLife/HiLife

Read "LoLife/HiLife" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 15, 2023

Danish pianist and composer Martin Lutz spent much of his childhood in Eastern and Southern Africa and elements of those regions' music are to the forefront of his writing, grafted on to a Northern European folk and neo-classical base. On LoLife/HiLife, Lutz leads a sextet with a three-saxophones frontline and the African influence is most clearly heard in his horn voicings. The result is a lyrical and redemptive sound which somehow, despite this being a purely instrumental ...

Album Review

Jan Harbeck Quartet: Balanced

by Neil Duggan
April 18, 2023

Should you find yourself sitting by the fireside late at night, perhaps swirling something in a glass, and you fancy listening to some elegantly refined jazz, then this album should fit the bill. Jan Harbeck is a Danish saxophonist, bandleader and composer and Balanced is his sixth album with his long-standing quartet. The Jan Harbeck Quartet play to packed houses around Denmark and Europe and have multi-million streams on Spotify. Previously, they have often used the Great American ...

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Jan Harbeck Quartet At Jazzhus Montmartre

by Martin McFie
September 12, 2020

The Jan Harbeck Quartet Jazzhus Montmartre Copenhagen, Denmark August 27, 2020 A few blocks away from the Christiansborg Palace--the seat of the Danish government--in a street filled with bustle and bicycles, is Jazzhus Montmartre, which has been here, or near here, since it began in 1959, that magical year for modern jazz recordings which saw the release of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Hum and Dave Brubeck's Time ...

Album Review

Jan Harbeck Quartet: The Sound The Rhythm

Read "The Sound The Rhythm" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 10, 2019

Jan Harbeck is a Danish tenor saxophonist whose debut with his quartet, In the Still of the Night (Stunt, 2008), received a Danish Grammy. At that time, Kresten Osgood was playing the drums. On the quartet's second album, Copenhagen Nocturne (Stunt, 2011), he was replaced by Anders Holm, but otherwise the line-up with bassist Eske Nørrelykke and pianist Henrik Gunde was intact. On these two albums, the musicians perfected a stylish noir universe of softly swinging jazz with interpretations of ...