Norwegian saxophonist

Jan Garbarek

New age music Jazz

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Intro

Norwegian saxophonist

Genres

New age music Jazz

Record Labels

ECM Records

Awards Received

Spellemannprisen

Arts Council Norway Honorary Award

Buddyprisen

Order of St. Olav

Music

Member of, past and present

Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.

Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław Garbarek, and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. He grew up in Oslo, stateless until the age of seven, as there was no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway at the time. When he was 21, he married the author Vigdis Garbarek. He is the father of musician and composer Anja Garbarek.