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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jan Garbarek
All About Jazz is celebrating Jan Garbarek's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jan GarbarekThe Norwegian saxophon player, Jan Garbarek had an early breakthrough into the elite of modern jazz in the 60\'s, due to his extensive cooperation with Keith Jarrett. His name is listed next to the ...
Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs
by John Kelman
Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings--on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn--guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a melodist at heart. Even at his most outré--his oblique yet stunningly constructed solo on “Next Love," from clarinetist Don Byron's minor classic, Tuskegee Experiment ...
Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes
by Jakob Baekgaard
There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...
Jan Johansson: From Small Acorns...
by Ian Patterson
Upon hearing the news and in a state of disbelief, Randi Hultin the legendary Norwegian jazz journalist rang pianist Reinhold Svensson who confirmed the worst: “Yes. Swedish jazz has just died."1 Reinhold's reaction to the death in a car accident of fellow pianist Jan Johansson whilst melodramatic reflected Jan Johansson's importance in the contemporary Swedish jazz ...
Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville
by John Kelman
The general international perception of Norway's jazz scene as “Nordic Cool," is, like most generalizations, inevitably distanced from truth. Atomic, The Core and Motif may possess no shortage of heat, but ECM has undeniably helped define that unmistakable Norwegian aesthetic. One of the “big four," brought to international attention in the early 1970s alongside guitarist Terje ...
In Praise Of Dreams
By Jan Garbarek
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: As Seen from Above; In Praise of Dreams; One Goes There Alone; Knot of Place and Time; If You Go Far Enough; Scene from Afar; Cloud of Unknowing; Without Visible Sign; Iceburn; Conversation with a Stone; A Tale Begun
Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams
by Mark F. Turner
The late night radio escapades of the '80s introduced the instrumental music style dubbed New Age, which demonstrated a different path from the over-commercialized contemporary scene, yet also appealed to audiences who desired more creative, meditative, and structured music. Groups such as Tangerine Dream and pianist George Winston filled the airwaves with an assorted mix of ...
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