The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
About Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek(born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.
Garbarek was born in Mysen, Ostfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czeslaw Garbarek, and a Norwegian woman.
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If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
Norwegian saxophonist
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.
Norwegian saxophonist
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
Norwegian saxophonist
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that’s what we face when we’re dealing with improvisation.
Norwegian saxophonist
When we are on tour we also take chances.
Norwegian saxophonist
I feel very strongly when there’s no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
Norwegian saxophonist
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Norwegian saxophonist
There’s a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I’ve moved away from that.
Norwegian saxophonist