Jan Garbarek

Norway's Jan Garbarek is known mostly as a jazz saxophonist, but several of his albums inlcudes his tasteful keyboard playing as well:

Twelve Moons 1993
Visible World 1996
Rites 1999
In Praise Of Dreams 2004

Opinions on his stuff from these albums?

I agree on you. I have the first album on Minidisc. Rented from the Library which is legal in NL.

Very authentic and fine music.

What interests me the most is that Norway has some very fine musicians in our field. Whenever they publish a CD, it's a damn good one.

I have quite a few albums by Jan Garbarek (and other recordings that he has appeared on).

I fear that his music bears more and more of a resemblance these days though to another famous soprano sax player with the same second initial.....

I love his daughter's (Anja) solo album Smiling and Waving.

That one is quite incredible...

She had a new album last year, called Briefly Shaken. Haven't heard it yet, but I'm looking out for it...