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Mikkelborg has experienced that you don’t necessarily change your own expression
or lose your identity while working with different
cultural traditions and
within varied musical
contexts.
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At the Jazzkaar:
22.04. 18.00 Sakala Centre
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Lullabye-Bye (fragment)
(Palle Mikkelborg) album
NHOP Pedersen & Mikkelborg
“Once Upon A Time” (1990)Skywards
(Terje Rypdal) album “Skywards” (1997)
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Although initially recognized as a
jazz musician, Palle Mikkelborg (58) is above all a universal craftsman whose great
strength is the flexible interaction between thought and technique. Also, Mikkelborg has
experienced that you don’t necessarily change your own expression or lose your
identity while working with different cultural traditions and within varied musical
contexts.
Mikkelborg has studied conducting at the Royal Music Academy, Copenhagen; he is
self-taught as trumpeter and composer. He was member of the Danish Radio Jazz Group and
the Radio Big Band in the 60s, and worked as a leader of these bands in the next decade.
Since the co-leadership of the Mikkelborg-Riel Quintet during the latter half of the
Sixties, Mikkelborg helmed his own groups V8 and Entrance, and collaborated & toured
with the likes of Gil Evans, George Russell, L. Shankar, Dino Saluzzi, Trilok Gurtu,
Hermeto Pascoal, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal et al.
Palle Mikkelborg is acknowledged as one of the finest exponents of electric trumpet whose
ability of developing new sounds and timbres with subtle artistry is truly remarkable. He
is also a prolific composer who has written a great number of variegated chamber works and
orchestral compositions: e.g. for symphony orchestra and soloists, for flute and
percussion, for choir, gamelan ensemble and soloists. In he mid-80s he composed and
produced a tribute to Miles Davis, «Aura», for big band and soloists, featuring Davis
himself. In 1995 Mikkelborg was composer, arranger and producer of the music to a
one-time-only concert extravaganza «Linien og Lyset» the open-air performance of which
involved more than 1000 musicians.
«His main influence, both conceptually and as a trumpet player, is Miles Davis,» denotes
the British jazz chronicler Ian Carr, «but he also favours Clifford Brown, Chet Baker and
Booker Little.» Important composers for Mikkelborg’s development have been Olivier
Messiaen, Gil Evans, Bill Evans and Charles Ives. From these sources, Mikkelborg has
devised a highly individual musical dialect of his own.
Palle Mikkelborg is a many-time recipient of the prizes of the Danish Conductors
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