"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something……" — Jan Garbarek
"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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10 Quotes by Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
- Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
- When we are on tour we also take chances.
- I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
- Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing…
- If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
- The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
- There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
- You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as…