Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian Jazz Saxophonist and is active in classical music and world music. He was born on 4 March 1947 in Mysen, Ostfold, Norway. His father was Czeslaw Garbarek and his wife is Vigdis Garbarek. His child's name is Anja Garbarek who is also a musician and a composer. He started his recording career in late 1960 when he worked with American jazz composer George Russell. Garbarek won wider popularity thru his work with pianist Keith Jarrett's European Quartet which released the albums Belonging (1974), My song (1977), and the live recordings personal Mountains (1979), and Nude Ants (1979). He was also a featured soloist in Luminessence (1974) and Arbour Zena (1975), Jarrett's orchestral works.

As a composer, Garbarek tends to draw closely from Scandinavian folks' melodies, a legacy of his Ayler has an impact. He is likewise a pioneer of ambient jazz composition, maximum notably on his 1976 album Dis a collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner, that featured the extraordinary sound of a wind harp on numerous tracks. in the 1980s, Garbarek's tune commenced to comprise synthesizers and elements of the global track. He has collaborated with Indian & Pakistani musicians consisting including Trilok Gurtu, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Bade Fateh Ali Khan.

Garbarek is credited for composing the original music for the film Kippur. In 1994, during the heightened popularity of Gregorian chant, his album Officium, a collaboration with early song vocal performers the Hilliard Ensemble, became one every of ECM's biggest-promoting albums of all time, achieving the pop charts in numerous European nations and turned into followed by a sequel, Mnemosyne, in 1999. Officium Novum, another sequel album, was launched in September 2010. In 2005, In praise of dreams, his album was nominated for a Grammy Award. Garbarek's first live album Dresden got released in 2009. He won Knight 1st class of the Order of St. Olav in 1999. In 2004 he got Norwegian Arts Council Award. In 2014, he was awarded Willy Brandt Award.