{"title":"Jan Garbarek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJan Garbarek grew up in Mysen, Norway, won an amateur jazz competition in 1962 at fifteen, and spent much of the following decade working with American composer George Russell, who was based in Scandinavia for an extended period during the 1960s and whose harmonic theories left a clear mark on how Garbarek approached structure and space. His ECM debut, \"Afric Pepperbird\" (1970), recorded with guitarist Terje Rypdal, bassist Arild Andersen, and drummer Jon Christensen, announced a tenor saxophone sound that had absorbed Ornette Coleman's freedom while arriving somewhere entirely its own: sharp-edged, glacial in tone, built around long notes and deliberate silences, and carrying a quality that critics and listeners immediately reached for landscape metaphors to describe. No saxophonist has been more completely identified with a single label. His association with Keith Jarrett's European quartet from the mid-1970s, documented on \"Belonging\" (ECM, 1974) and \"My Song\" (ECM, 1977), brought him to a wider audience, but the quartet recordings he made as a leader during the same period, particularly \"Witchi-Tai-To\" (ECM, 1974) and \"Dansere\" (ECM, 1976) with the Bobo Stenson Quartet, are what collectors concentrate on. His 1980s work with Eberhard Weber on bass, and guitarists Bill Frisell and David Torn, shifted the sound toward world music and ambient territory; \"Officium\" (ECM, 1994), a meeting with the Hilliard Ensemble built around medieval and Renaissance polyphony, became ECM's best-selling album of all time. The early to mid-1970s ECM records are the ones most sought-after on original vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jan-garbarek-keith-jarrett-palle-danielsson-jon-christensen-belonging-1974-ecm-vinyl-lp","title":"Jan Garbarek \/ Keith Jarrett \/ Palle Danielsson \/ Jon Christensen - Belonging (1974 ECM Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eObi:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJan Garbarek \/ Keith Jarrett \/ Palle Danielsson \/ Jon Christensen - \u003cem\u003eBelonging\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1974 Japanese ECM\/Trio Records (PAP-9011)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Jarrett had been running two parallel careers since the early 1970s: an American trio and solo practice alongside an entirely different quartet with European musicians. He had first noticed Jan Garbarek while touring Europe with Charles Lloyd's group; Garbarek was in George Russell's band. Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen were the rhythm section of the Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet, whose \u003cem\u003eWitchi-Tai-To\u003c\/em\u003e had been recorded five months before \u003cem\u003eBelonging\u003c\/em\u003e. Jarrett knew exactly what he was assembling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wrote all six pieces specifically for these four musicians. The structure alternates: a fast piece, then a ballad, then a fast piece on Side A; a short ballad, then a fast piece, then a long ballad on Side B. \"Spiral Dance\" opens with Garbarek's tenor over Christensen's ride cymbal, the band at full tempo from the first bar. \"Blossom\" stretches to twelve minutes, Jarrett's piano sustaining long melodic lines while Garbarek enters on soprano saxophone with a tone closer to a folk instrument than a jazz horn. \"'Long As You Know You're Living Yours\" closes Side A with the kind of propulsive energy that rarely appeared on ECM recordings in 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Belonging,\" the title track, is the album's shortest piece at just over two minutes. It functions as a threshold between the two sides rather than a standalone composition. \"The Windup\" is the hardest-swinging piece Jarrett recorded for ECM, Danielsson's bass walking hard, Christensen driving from underneath. \"Solstice\" closes the album at thirteen minutes. Garbarek's opening soprano note is slightly off pitch, deliberately so, and the piece unfolds from that intentional tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManfred Eicher produced. Jarrett insisted on first takes throughout, and the sense of spontaneity that carries the record is not an illusion. This is the 1974 Japanese Trio Records pressing (PAP-9011).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43655653392443,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7296.jpg?v=1781489131"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/jan-garbarek.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}