Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg ( born June 7, 1958 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish jazz bassist.
Hellborg learned as a child, the bass playing and began at the age of sixteen years training in classical and jazz music. In 1981 he was invited to the Montreux Jazz Festival, where Michael Brecker was aware of him, which brought him to New York City. There he met percussionist Kwaku Baah Reebop, with whom he worked until his death in London on the album " Melodies in a Jungle Man 's Head ", which appeared in 1983.
In 1982 Hellborg 's own record label Day Eight, where in 1983 his first solo album "The Bassic Thing" brought out. By Michael J. Smith and Michael Shrieve album " All Our Steps" appeared. During this time, his work with John McLaughlin, who invited him to participate in his Mahavishnu Orchestra began. After two world tours with the orchestra he began in 1985 in a duet with McLaughlin occur. In addition, he recorded the album "Axis" with Bernie Worrell, Bernard Fowler and Anton Fier. In 1986 a new tour and the album "Adventures in Radioland " with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In the same year with Worrell and Ginger Baker, he recorded the album "Bass " and with Jochen shrink, Thomas Bettermann, Waldo Karpenkiel and Klaus Dapper CD " collective". In 1988 he undertook with McLaughlin and Trilok Gurtu, a U.S. tour and recorded the album " Adfa " with Gurtu and Ulf Wakenius on.
With Aydın Esen and Kenwood Dennard, he founded the Jonas Hellborg Group, which later appeared in the cast with Anders Nord and Jaime Salazar and finally with Jens Johansson and Anders Johansson. With this lineup the album " E" appeared.
1990 started his collaboration with Bill Laswell, with whom he founded the Green Point Recording Studio in New York. Laswell produced Hell Borg's album " The Word" with Tony Williams and a string quartet, on the Hellborg played for the first time developed by Abraham Wechter acoustic bass guitar. On the same instrument Hellborg played a solo album, "The Silent Life". After a European tour in 1992 and a visit to Paris in 1993 he undertook a 1995 tour of China, next appeared in this period, several albums such as "Octave of the Holy Innocents " along with Buckethead and Michael Shrieve.
From 1996 to 1999 he recorded the albums " Temporal Analogues of Paradise", "Time is the Enemy " and " Zenhouse " with Shawn Lane and Jeff Sipe. On a tour of Syria with Arab musicians, was in Damascus and Aleppo, the live album " Aram of the Two Rivers".
In 2000, he was with Lane and V. Selvaganesh on tour and took with them on the album " Good People in Times of Evil". In 2003, the album " Icon " with Shawn Lane, V. Umamahesh, V. Umashankar and V. Slevaganesh, 2004, the albums " Temporal Analogues of Paradise", and " Octave of the Holy Innocents " and the DVD " Paris".
2006, a new edition of the Hellborg Group. With this Mattias Eklundh and Zoltan are Csörsz Jr.
In 2011 he goes again after many years with the legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker on tour.