50 great moments in jazz: Jan Garbarek, ECM Records and the 1970s European renaissance

From the late 1960s onward, European jazz musicians began to look to their own cultural tradition. The first steps were tentative, but by the mid-1970s they had become giant stridesEberhard Weber, the jazz-raised German electric bassist, is reputed to have told his band in the mid-70s, "you can play anything, as long as it doesn't sound like jazz". Weber's view marked a seismic shift in the music's development - toward Europe as a source of fresh ideas, and away from the received wisdom that jaz...

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