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Noel Borthwick

Born in Bombay, on the west coast of India, Noel Borthwick began playing the guitar around the age of ten. He grew up listening to the music of many 70's progressive rock and jazz fusion groups. His interest in pioneering fusion groups such as Mahavishnu and Return To Forever, led him to spend a year with acclaimed Indian sarod player Shekhar Borkar, exploring the eastern principles of improvisation, rhythmic and melodic form in Indian classical music. In his late teens, he was drawn to the styles of jazz guitarists such as Pat Martino and Joe Pass as well as the music of John Coltrane, and immersed himself in the study of bebop, modal and mainstream jazz styles

Ramona Borthwick: One of Us

by Ian Patterson
February 3, 2010

Pianist Ramona Borthwick is nothing if not generous--offering up over seventy minutes of quality music on this, her second recording as leader. That the music is constantly arresting is testament to the quality of the arrangements and, in equal measure, to the virtuosity displayed by her quintet. In effect, the quintet becomes at times ...

One Of Us

By Noel Borthwick

Label: Leitmotif
Released: 2009