The Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek helped invent European jazz but on Tuesday at The Dome he and his band were in the reinvention business.

In recent years his name has been associated with an earnestness which has made his music seem rather bleak.

But playing against a backdrop which looked like fingers of sky reaching from a far horizon - appropriate for someone whose sax sound flies on an Arctic wind - he was more rooted in the warm earth than I've ever seen him, and all the better for it.

While he has always been heavily influenced by Norwegian folk music, last night we had blues, funk, the tango...and even jazz.

After his work with such outfits as classical vocal group the Hilliard Ensemble, he had seemed to have left that behind but on Tuesday he came full circle with his regular band of Rainer Bruninghaus on keyboards, Eberhard Weber on electric double bass and Marilyn Mazur on percussion.

Although he dipped into his back catalogue, the new material he presented had a lightness of touch which danced to Mazur's wonderful splashes of bells and cymbals.

The second number had an almost child-like sense of fun at the beginning. Stripped of all that overt seriousness, he discovered a true depth.

And boy, can these musicians play! While losing none of his trademark ethereal beauty on soprano, Garbarek's tenor had a muscular jazziness which was exhilarating and Weber's solo gave us a taste of what his amazing concerts are like.

But it was Mazur who brought the house down. Her solo was not only a bravura performance, it was so musical it was a band in itself and when, at the end, Garbarek joined her on bamboo flute, we were in heaven.