Jan Garbarek Group feat. Trilok Gurtu - Jan Garbarek / Yuri Daniel / Rainer Brüninghaus / Trilok Gurtu

May 10, 2025 SOLD OUT! - ADDITIONAL CONCERT! on Fri. May 9, 2025.

forum jazz e. V. (Merzhausen) & Renate und Waltraut Sick Stiftung (Freiburg) present:
Jan Garbarek Group feat.Trilok Gurtu

Duration: 110 minutes - without intermission

For sixty years now, the Norwegian Jan Garbarek has been working on his saxophone tone, sharpening it like a Japanese blacksmith turns a samurai sword into a unique specimen with devoted intensity. A long process of concentration, elimination and condensation until he has achieved that triumphant unquestionableness. The meditative suggestive power of this unique saxophonist, who has achieved a popularity as an instrumentalist that is otherwise reserved for vocalists, is the result of his efforts to make the difficult appear simple.

However, the triumph of simplicity can only be understood if we consider how he got there. The background and foundation of his hymnal pathos is the jazz of the sixties with its wild and free improvisations as well as the folk and art music of countless cultures, whereby he found the most "exotic" variant in the folklore of his native Norway. Garbarek's musical sources are as diverse as his collaborations, whereby those with Keith Jarrett or the "Officium" project together with the British Hilliard Ensemble can already be described as legendary. The Norwegian has been one of the most important musicians on the Munich-based ECM label since its inception.

His personality is so concentrated in Garbarek's saxophone tone that it reveals itself at the first note in a way that only very few other musicians can, unique and unforgettable.

(Text reprinted with the kind permission of Bremme & Hohensee Konzertagentur Heidelberg)