Friday, 5/9/2025
at 8:00 PM


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

Duration: 110 minutes - without intermission

For the past sixty years, the Norwegian Jan Garbarek has been working on his saxophonist, honing it like a Japanese smith passionately and intensively shapes a samurai sword into a unique piece. A long process of concentration, elimination, and condensation, until he reaches that triumphant indisputability. The meditative suggestive power of this unique saxophonist in the world, who has achieved a popularity as an instrumentalist that is otherwise reserved only for vocalists, is the result of his efforts to make the difficult seem simple.

However, the triumph of simplicity can only be understood if we consider the path to it. The background and foundation of his hymnic pathos is the jazz of the sixties with its wild and free improvisations as well as the folk and art music of countless cultures, finding the "most exotic" variant in the folklore of his native Norway. Garbarek's musical sources are as diverse as his collaborations, with those with Keith Jarrett or the "Officium" project together with the British Hilliard Ensemble being already considered legendary. Since the foundation of the Munich ECM label, the Norwegian has been one of its most important musicians.

In Garbarek's saxophonist, his personality is so concentrated that it reveals itself, like very few other musicians, with the first note, unique and unforgettable.

(Text printed with kind permission from the Bremme & Hohensee Concert Agency Heidelberg)

Entry at 7 PM in the foyer; parking available at BürgerBad, Friedhofweg 13

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