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Thomas Borgmann

Born: January 5, 1955

Borgmann began his career in the early 1980s, working mainly with the Berlin Art Ensemble around Nick Steinhaus (participating in the 1981 Tour Southamerica for the Goethe-Institut, and the 1982 Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen). He went on to the Sirone Sextet in New York (1987); the Hidden Quartet (with Dietmar Diesner, Erik Balke, and Jonas Akerblom); and Noise & Toys (with Valery Dudkin, Sascha Kondraschkin). In 1991, Borgmann founded the Orkestra Kith’N Kin (with Hans Reichel, John Tchicai, Pat Thomas, Jay Oliver, Mark Sanders, Lol Coxhill and others). Later he toured with his Quartet Ruf der Heimat (founded in 1993 with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Peter Brötzmann, Willi Kellers, Christoph Winckel), and with the Trio Blue Zoo (with Borah Bergman and Brötzmann)

Secrets

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Secrets Of A Bird's Mind; Birds And A Cow; Malatune; Cowbirds.

Ruf Der Heimat: Secrets

by John Sharpe
February 6, 2021

Originally an outfit exploring perspectives on free jazz from either side of the Berlin Wall, Ruf Der Heimat continues to thrive on Secrets, only its fourth release over the near three decades since its 1992 birth. Leader and reedman Thomas Borgmann remains at the helm beside his longtime accomplice drummer Willi Kellers but, in the meantime, ...

Some More Jazz

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Other Morning in the Park; Broadway Birdy Part I; Broadway Birdy Part II; Catham Bellbird.

Keys and Screws: Some More Jazz

by John Eyles
August 2, 2020

In Berlin, in June 2010, a trio calling themselves Boom Box recorded the album Jazz (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) which was released to considerable acclaim; that group comprised Thomas Borgmann on tenor, soprano and sopranino saxophones plus harmonica, Akira Ando on double-bass and Willi Kellers on drums and percussion, each of whom penned two of the album's six ...

One For Cisco

By Thomas Borgmann

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: One for Cisco (Part 1); One for Cisco (Part 2).

Thomas Borgmann Trio: One For Cisco

by John Sharpe
May 26, 2016

This limited edition LP documents a collectively birthed exploration spread across the two sides by the visiting German pair of reedman Thomas Borgmann and long time associate drummer Willi Kellers, who team up with NYC bassist Max Johnson. The concert took place as part of the New York Tenor Saxophone Festival at Ibeam in 2015 organized ...

Nasty & Sweet

By Thomas Borgmann

Label: Recorded
Released: 2013

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2013

by John Sharpe
December 16, 2013

Here are twelve new releases which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Mostly Other People Do The Killing Slippery Rock (Hot Cup Records) Leader and bassist Moppa Elliott's songwriting talents haven't deserted him: his charts, named after small Pennsylvania towns, are bursting at ...

Thomas Borgmann – Wilber Morris – Reggie Nicholson: Nasty & Sweet

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 23, 2013

Il trio protagonista di questo doppio LP (tirato in soli 400 esemplari) nasce nel 1995 con alla batteria Denis Charles. Alla sua morte (marzo '98) gli subentra Reggie Nicholson, finché nel 2002 anche Wilber Morris ci lascia e il gruppo si scioglie. Le registrazioni (live) qui documentate colgono la seconda edizione del trio all'inizio del suo ...