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Jan Garbarek

November 2019

  • Simple and accessible ... Jan Garbarek.

    Jan Garbarek Group review – smooth jazz and squeaky toys

    Amid celebrations of the ECM label’s 50th anniversary, the Norwegian saxophonist delivered some compelling exploratory solo

October 2019

  • The Hilliard Ensemble David James, Steven Harrold, Roger Covey-Crump, Gordon Jones and Jan Garbarek

    Home listening
    Home listening: a fond farewell from the Hilliards and Jan Garbarek

    A live album captures the bestselling collaboration on their final tour. Plus, another superb recording from St John’s, Cambridge

November 2014

  • Branford Marsalis and his quartet at London jazz festival

    Garbarek/Hilliard/Marsalis/Ibrahim review – masters shine at London jazz festival

    Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble were energising, Branford Marsalis came out swinging and South Africa’s Abdullah Ibrahim delivered echoes of Duke Ellington, writes John Fordham

November 2012

  • Jan Garbarek performs at the Royal Festival Hall for the London jazz festival 2012

    Music blog
    London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him

    John Lewis: The Norwegian saxophonist used to be the king of icy cool jazz – but at this gig he sounded more like Kenny G. What's going on?

September 2012

  • Marius Neset/Daniel Herskedal – review

    Accessible yet adventurous, this tuba-sax duo produced imaginative virtuosity at every turn, writes John Fordham

June 2012

  • Jan Garbarek: Sart/Witchi-Tai-To/Dansere – review

    Though the music is uneven, its growing independence is palpable, writes John Fordham

March 2011

  • 50 great moments in jazz
    50 great moments in jazz: Jan Garbarek, ECM Records and the 70s European renaissance

    No 45: From the late-60s onward, European jazz musicians began to look to their own cultural tradition. The first steps were tentative, but by the mid-70s they had become giant strides

October 2010

  • Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble - review

    King's College Chapel, Cambridge
    The fan-vaulted building became another instrument under the mesmerising control of Garbarek and the Hilliard, writes John L Walters

September 2010

  • Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum

  • Officium Novum: Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble

February 2010

  • Jan Garbarek/Trilok Gurtu

    Barbican, London
    This kaleidoscopic gig bordered on the flashily ­virtuosic, but it was intended to be a party for Jan Garbarek's band and Trilok Gurtu, and on that level, it worked. The audience were on their feet at the end, writes John Fordham

January 2010

  • ellie goulding

    This week's music previews

    Ellie Goulding | Jan Garbarek Group With Trilok Gurtu | NME Awards Tour | Christian Scott | Many Hands Day | Band Of Skulls

September 2009

  • Jan Garbarek: Dresden

    Fans needn't fear the banishing of windswept-landscape Garbarek or pensively folk-dancing Garbarek, says John Fordham

June 2009

  • Pick of the week: Jazz

    London: Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble | Four Tet/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson | Led Bib

February 2008

  • Marilyn Mazur with Jan Garbarek, Elixir

    (ECM)

November 2007

  • 192 sound reasons to seek broader horizons

    Jazz: From Jan Garbarek's elegant folk to the tenor sax of Joshua Redman, the London Jazz Festival provided some choice nights - and quite a few surprises

November 2004

  • Jan Garbarek

    Royal Festival Hall, London

May 2002

  • Jan Garbarek

  • It's a wonderful life

November 1999

  • The Gothic revival

    Six years ago jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the early music foursome, the Hilliard Ensemble sequestered themselves in a monastery to record the album Officium. Since then the five have been inseparable. Last year they returned to the monastery and came up with Mnemosyne, a selection that relies on the singers improvising as much as Garbarek.

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