Complex sentence: Torn began his career with the Ithaca-based jam band Zobo Funn Band in the 1970s, and rose to prominence as a member of The Everyman Band & Jan Garbarek's quartet in the mid- 1980s.
Split into simpler sentences: Torn began his career with the Ithaca-based jam band Zobo Funn Band. He rose to prominence as a member of The Everyman Band & Jan Garbarek's quartet in the mid- 1980s.