Results for "Tore Brunborg"

Tore Brunborg

Born in Trondheim, Norway 1960.
Studied at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim.

Played with (selection): Masqualero (Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Nils Petter Molvær)1982-1992.
Bo Stief, Rita Marcotulli, Jon Balke, Billy Cobham, Diederik Wissels, Anders Jormin, Lars Danielsson, Jarle Vespestad, Cecilie Nordby, Scandinavian Summit, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Diederik Wissels, Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Kenneth Sivertsen, Juni Dahr, Arild Andersen. Bjørn Alterhaug, Vigleik Storaas, Jon Eberson.

As a leader:

Tore Brunborg project (with Bugge Wesseltoft, Jon Christensen and Anders Jormin)

Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

"You're busy appearing or you're busy disappearing." Drummer-bandleader Art Blakey may have said that; if he didn't, he should have. Somebody had to express the importance of presenting your work, for getting it out there to an audience. This goes for virtually any artist in any medium. Double down on that for people who create jazz. ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

By JOHN KELMAN

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

Skydive Trio: Sun Sparkle

By KARL ACKERMANN

Norwegian guitarist Thomas Dahl's primary project is the Skydive Trio with bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Olavi Louhivuouri. The trio is an off-shoot of a quintet of the same name that includes tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg and pianist Alexi Tuomarila. Sun Sparkle is the second release from the smaller group whose sound, like the album title, ...

Joachim Kuhn: Love & Peace

By KARL ACKERMANN

The German ACT label achieved global recognition when they issued the Esbjorn Svensson Trio album Viaticum (2005) and they warrant broader discovery by U.S. jazz fans. Though their country's best known label casts a global shadow over its competition, the ACT catalog has included Richie Beirach, Lars Danielsson, Vijay Iyer, Manu Katche, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bugge Wesseltoft, ...

Maciej Obara Quartet: Dominik Wania/Ole Morten Vågan/Gard Nilssen: Unloved

By KARL ACKERMANN

A distinct vernacular, unabashedly quixotic lyricism and an authoritative style of playing are among the notable characteristics that define Maciej Obara. The Polish saxophonist and composer had performed with Tomasz Stańko in the trumpeter's “New Balladyna Quartet" project and he has recorded with John Lindberg, Ralph Alessi, Mark Helias and Nasheet Waits. Obara was also on ...

Yelena Eckemoff: In The Shadow Of A Cloud

By JOHN KELMAN

She may rarely perform live in this context, but Yelena Eckemoff has managed to build, over just seven years and a mammoth eleven releases--including her second release of 2017, In the Shadow of a Cloud--a loyal and growing following in the jazz world. It's all the more remarkable for a multi-talented expat Russian pianist who began ...

Vossa Jazz 2017

By IAN PATTERSON

Vossajazz 2017 Various Venues Voss, Norway April 7-9, 2017 Some places punch above their weight. Voss is one. With just 14,000 inhabitants, this small Norwegian town in the county of Hordaland, can boast a world-renowned sky-diving training centre, the country's foremost folk music academy, one of the best wine cellars in ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2016

By THOMAS CONRAD

2016 Belgrade Jazz Festival Belgrade, Serbia October 26-October 30, 2016 Because of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Belgrade Jazz Festival, like most good things in the Balkans, went dark for 15 years after 1990. When it started up again in 2005, it was small. By 2008, it was big enough ...

Manu Katché: Unstatic

By KARL ACKERMANN

Drummer Manu Katché's career has been a long, circuitous one that began in rock, working for an extended period with Peter Gabriel, Sting and Joni Mitchell. In the cases of Sting and Mitchell, there was a jazz sensibility present in much of their work. Simultaneously, Katché's work on the ECM label was taking shape as he ...