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Jan Garbarek [1947-0] Norwegian
Rank: 112
Musician, Saxophonist


Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist who is also active in classical music and world music.
Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław Garbarek, and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. 


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There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
101
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
102
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
103
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
104
You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
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I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
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If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
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When we are on tour we also take chances.
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