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David Borgo

Born: February 8, 1970

David Borgo started playing alto saxophone at the age of 8. He had formative jazz experiences growing up in the Washington D.C. area, and went on to earn his B.M. in Jazz Studies at Indiana University, under the tutelage of renown jazz educator David N. Baker.

After graduation, David began touring widely, and his travel experiences in Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and more, sparked an interest in "world music" and the academic field of Ethnomusicology. He went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degress in the field from UCLA, studying with one of the world's preeminent Ethnomusicology faculty.

Pathika

By David Borgo

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mumbai; Mombasa; Aqaba; Limassol; Lisboa; Dubrovnik; Azrou; The Bath.

David Borgo: Pathika

by Dan McClenaghan
July 25, 2023

San Diego's David Borgo, a top-tier jazz saxophonist and an ethnomusicologist with a professorship day job at the University of California at San Diego, says, “Ethnomusicology is like the anthropology of music." He puts this concept into practice with his teaching for the “Semester At Sea." This educational cruise program takes students to various ...

Cautiously Optimistic

By David Borgo

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2022

Suite of Uncommon Sorrows

By David Borgo

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2021

KaiBorg: IntraAction

By David Borgo

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2020

KaiBorg: Vibrant Matters

By David Borgo

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2017

Nathan Hubbard / Skeleton Key Orchestra: Furiously Dreaming

by Dave Wayne
July 1, 2016

Sprawling. Massive. Unapologetically ambitious. All over the musical map. But, somehow, not excessive. Furiously Dreaming is a two-CD set by percussionist / composer / musical visionary Nathan Hubbard and his 50-member (for this recording) Skeleton Key Orchestra. The leader or co-leader of a dozen or so different small ensembles playing everything from modern jazz to contemporary ...

Kronomorfic: Entangled

by Maurizio Zerbo
September 25, 2015

Forti di una solidissima formazione musicale, i due leader David Borgo e Paul Pellegrin hanno messo la loro volatile espressività al servizio di un progetto estremamente stratificato sul piano ritmico e timbrico. È soprattutto il batterista ad imprimere il proprio stile all'identità di Entangled. Il policentrismo ritmico del suo drumming persegue irregolari sviluppi ...

Kronomorfic: Entangled

By David Borgo

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2014