JA‘N GARBAREK Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Thu 25 Nov
Norwegian saxophone master Jan Garbarek has carved out a very distinctive path through contemporary music since he first took up the instrument as a disciple of John Coltrane in the late 605. His majestic sound and keening, folk-inflected melody lines have earned him a huge following, and in the process have taken him a long way away from anything obviously categorisable as jazz idioms.
Garbarek will lead his long-running quartet with pianist Rainer Bruninghaus, bassist Eberhard Weber and percussionist Marilyn Mazur for this latest visit to Scotland, but his most recent album, In Praise of Dreams, took a different approach. No surprise there — like Miles Davis, Garbarek has revealed an ongoing penchant for reinventing the context of his music around the continuous centre of his own sound and playing.
‘That is the only thing I can change. I am always me, that’s a constant. but the way I can make things different is to change the surroundings.‘
In Praise of Dreams was his first album in six years, and the latest episode in a relationship with Manfred Eicher's ECM Records that goes back to 1970. It features his trademark saxophone with American viola player Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Manu Kache, and a greater degree of electronics than on any previous Garbarek record.
‘Kim was a very powerful new agent in my music. I created a lot of the music on my computer, and had used some samples of a viola, so Manfred suggested we ask Kim. The way she plays the viola, her phrasing and sound production are very close to the way I play the saxophone, and I was really overwhelmed by the life and depth she brought to the music.
‘l’ve worked with Manu before, and I wanted him because I knew he would be able to find his way in between the pre-composed drum patterns I had created. He plays a lot with people like Sting and Peter Gabriel, and is used to working in that way.’ (Kenny Mathieson)
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