Jan Harbeck
Jan Harbeck is a Danish jazz musician 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, 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, Harbeck/Agesen/Johnsen
- 2005: HAVL – Who is it?
- 2008: In the Still of the Night, with Jan Harbeck Quartet
- 2011: Copenhagen Nocturne, with Jan Harbeck Quartet
- 2014: Variations in Blue, with Jan Harbeck Quartet feat. Walter Smith III
- 2017: Elevate, with Live Jive Jungle
- 2019: The Sound The Rhythm with Jan Harbeck Quartet
- 2022: Balanced with Jan Harbeck Quartet
Collaborations
- 2005: Kinda Dukish, with Putte Wickman
- 2007: Out Of This World, with Bobo Moreno
- 2005: Pieces of Mind
- 2014: Money
- 2013: Happy Feet
- 2016: Here’s To The Ladies
- 2004: Tango for Bad People, with the Beijbom Kroner Big Band
- 2006: Tango jalousie and all that jazz, with the New Music Orchestra
- 2006: Live from Paradise, with the Monday Night Big Band
- 2007: Playground +1, with Bévort-Schmidt
- 2008: EKMNO B3, with New Music Orchestra
- 2009: Turn on the heat, with the Ib Glindemann's Orchestra
- 2010: Sparring, with Dellbeck
- 2011: Blues Modernism, with Snorre Kirk Sextet
- 2011: Funkenstein, with the Bentzon Brotherhood
- 2012: Free Falling, with Mads Mathias
- 2013: Come Sunday, with Kjeld Lauritsen and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold
- 2014: WhiteAlive at the Metronome, with Franck White
- 2015: Europa, with Snorre Kirk Quintet
- 2015: Playhouse, with Claus Waidtløw & The Orchestra
- 2015: Kick off your shoes, with Louise Bøttern
- 2015: New strides, with Tommy Høeg Quartet