Jan Harbeck (born 13 April 1975 in

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) is a Danish jazz musician (saxophones, flaute, clarinet) and composer.

Biography

Harbeck attended the

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to study music and later went on to further studies at

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. Besides two ensembles of his own, Jan Harbeck Quartet and Live Jive Jungle, he performs with a series of other orchestras. In 2006 he was awarded the Walter Klæbel Prize, in 2009 a Danish Grammy for Best album of the year, and in 2011 the prestigious

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Prize. With his own self titled quartet he released the album ''In the Still of the Night'' (2008), receiving a grammy at the

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. It was followed up by ''Copenhagen Nocturne'' in 2011. They play modern acoustic jazz with a mix of original compositions and jazz standards. In 2014 they released thetheir third album ''Variations in Blue'' with

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Honors

* 2006: Awarded the Walter Klæbel Prize * 2008: Nominated New Danish Jazz Act of the Year at the

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* 2009: Awarded the Danish Jazz Album of the Year 2008, for the album ''In the Still of the Night'' at the

* 2011: Awarded the Bent Jædig Prize * 2018: Awarded the Ben Webster Prize

Discography

Solo albums

* 2003: ''Landors'' (Cope Records), Harbeck/Agesen/Johnsen * 2005: ''HAVL – Who is it?'' (Twangster Records) * 2008: ''In the Still of the Night'' (

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), with Jan Harbeck Quartet * 2011: ''Copenhagen Nocturne'' (Stunt Records), with Jan Harbeck Quartet * 2014: ''Variations in Blue'' (Stunt Records), with Jan Harbeck Quartet feat.

* 2017: ''Elevate'' (Stunt Records), with Live Jive Jungle * 2019: ''The Sound The Rhythm'' (Stunt Records) with Jan Harbeck Quartet * 2022: ''Balanced'' (Stunt Records) with Jan Harbeck Quartet

Collaborations

; With The Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band * 2005: ''Kinda Dukish'' (

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), with Putte Wickman * 2007: ''Out Of This World'' (Stunt Records), with Bobo Moreno ; With The Orchestra * 2005: ''Pieces of Mind'' (Cope Records) * 2014: ''Money'' (Gateway Records) ; With Malene Kjærgård * 2013: ''Happy Feet'' (Calibrated Records) * 2016: ''Here’s To The Ladies'' (Calibrated Records) ; With others * 2004: ''Tango for Bad People'' (Sweet Silence Records), with the Beijbom Kroner Big Band * 2006: ''Tango jalousie and all that jazz'' (Calibrated Records), with the New Music Orchestra * 2006: ''Live from Paradise'' (Calibrated Records), with the Monday Night Big Band * 2007: ''Playground +1'' (Calibrated Records), with Bévort-Schmidt * 2008: ''EKMNO B3'' (Calibrated Records), with New Music Orchestra * 2009: ''Turn on the heat'' (Little Beat Records), with the Ib Glindemann's Orchestra * 2010: ''Sparring'' (Gateway Records), with Dellbeck * 2011: ''Blues Modernism'' (Calibrated Records), with Snorre Kirk Sextet * 2011: ''Funkenstein'' (Do It Again Records), with the Bentzon Brotherhood * 2012: ''Free Falling'' ( Calibrated Records), with Mads Mathias * 2013: ''Come Sunday'' ( Music Mecca), with Kjeld Lauritsen and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold * 2014: ''WhiteAlive at the Metronome'' (Mighty Blue Records), with Franck White * 2015: ''Europa'' (Calibrated Records), with Snorre Kirk Quintet * 2015: ''Playhouse'' (Gateway Records), with Claus Waidtløw & The Orchestra * 2015: ''Kick off your shoes'' (Gateway Records), with Louise Bøttern * 2015: ''New strides'' (Gateway Records), with Tommy Høeg Quartet

References

External links

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Jan Harbeck Quartet - Copenhagen Jazzfestival
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