{"id":113,"date":"2004-02-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=113"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"jan-garbarek-group-live-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2004\/02\/23\/jan-garbarek-group-live-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Garbarek Group — live in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this jazz saxophonist’s album Rites<\/a> years ago, so I was glad to finally see him perform with his group. Some say his playing is evocative of vast snow-covered plains, but I think they just say that because he comes from Norway.<\/p>\n

Most of their pieces were build from soundscapes made by the four players, with a healthy dose of the extended solos you’d expect from a jazz group. Frequently, during a solo, the other players would chat to each other or wander offstage for a few minutes. But always the flow of the piece remained unbroken.<\/p>\n

The percussionist, Marilyn Mazur really stood out – her rack of instruments looked like a huge version of one of those baby’s toys strung across a playpen, and she did seem to have a lot of fun. She was the only one of the four to smile much, and she definitely had more zip, vim and vigour than the other three all put together.<\/p>\n

Eberhard Weber, on his customised six-string fretless bass, was also impressive. His bass was wired up with effects and samplers so that he was able to play several bass parts simultaneously. I think he had a lot of the audience wondering, “how did he do that?” Amazing stuff – I would happily listen to two hours of just him playing.<\/p>\n

I liked the variety of the music too. Some pieces were pretty dreamy, and some were stompin’, showing the African influence in a lot of their music. And so good to be able to see them making the music as well as hear it.<\/p>\n

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I got this jazz saxophonist’s album Rites years ago, so I was glad to finally see him perform with his group. Some say his playing is evocative of vast snow-covered plains, but I think they just say that because he … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}