Jan Harbeck

Jan Harbeck (born 13 April 1975) is a Danish jazz musician (saxophones, flaute, clarinet) and composer.

Biography Harbeck attended the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg to study music and later went on to further studies at The New School in New York City. 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 Bent Jædig Prize.

With his own self titled quartet he released the album In the Still of the Night (2008), receiving a grammy at the Danish Music Awards. 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 Walter Smith III.

Honors

2006: Awarded the Walter Klæbel Prize 2008: Nominated New Danish Jazz Act of the Year at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009: Awarded the Danish Jazz Album of the Year 2008, for the album In the Still of the Night at the Danish Music Awards 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 (Stunt Records), with Jan Harbeck Quartet 2011: Copenhagen Nocturne (Stunt Records), with Jan Harbeck Quartet 2014: Variations in Blue (Stunt Records), with Jan Harbeck Quartet feat. Walter Smith III 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 (Gazell Records), 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