Stefan Pasborg
Encyclopedia
Stefan Pasborg is a Danish
drummer
, composer
and bandleader
, and the founding member of ILK MUSIC, a Danish record label
.
He has performed and recorded with many international recording artists such as John Tchicai
, Miroslav Vitous
, Ellery Eskelin
, Tim Berne
, Palle Danielsson
, Marc Ducret
, Anders Jormin, Michael Formanek
, Tomasz Stanko
, Carsten Dahl
, Jesper Zeuthen, Ray Anderson
, Alex Riel
, Mikko Innanen
and Lotte Anker
are among others. Pasborg has toured the most of Europe
, US and Asia
as a leader, also as a sideman.
His latest CD was named one of the "Best Debut Albums of 2007" All About Jazz-New York Best of 2007 New York
Pasborg was already behind the drums at the age of three. He received a present, a drumset it was, from a close friend of his parents who happened to be an acclaimed Danish drummer, namely Alex Riel
which also became Pasborg's first drum teacher
.
In later years, while kept playing, he decided to attend prestigious Copenhagen
Jazz
Conservatory
where the teachers were among others internationally respected Jazz performers such as Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
, Ed Thigpen
, Horace Parlan
and Atilla Engin
to name few. During his studies at the conservatory, he met other young musicians, thirteen of them, which they together formed an independent record label
called ILK Music.
Both awards were given by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI
).
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and bandleader
Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
, and the founding member of ILK MUSIC, a Danish record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
.
Biography
In 2004 he was voted "New Name of The Year" at the Danish Music Award Jazz 2004 and his release Toxikum was voted Jazz Discovery of the Year. Danish Music Awards Jazz is being given each year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.He has performed and recorded with many international recording artists such as John Tchicai
John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
, Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...
, Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin American tenor saxophonist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, raised in Baltimore, Maryland from the age of two. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were also musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and became a cult figure after his death in the little known...
, Tim Berne
Tim Berne
Tim Berne is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s...
, Palle Danielsson
Palle Danielsson
Palle Danielsson is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period.-Career:...
, Marc Ducret
Marc Ducret
Marc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2...
, Anders Jormin, Michael Formanek
Michael Formanek
Michael Formanek is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California and associated with the jazz scene in New York City....
, Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stańko is a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser. Often recording for ECM, Stańko is strongly associated with free jazz and the avant-garde....
, Carsten Dahl
Carsten Dahl
Carsten Dahl is a Danish Jazz pianist. "Dahl is a truly great pianist" Chris Mosey said, in his All About Jazz review of Dahl's CD In Our Own Sweet Way released in 2009 with Alex Riel and Mads Vinding.-Biography:...
, Jesper Zeuthen, Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson may refer to:*Ray Anderson , light heavyweight boxer*Ray Anderson *Ray Anderson , jazz trombone and trumpet player...
, Alex Riel
Alex Riel
Alex Riel, , is a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboards June 1968 edition.-Biography:Riel has recorded with, among others, Kenny Drew, Kenny Werner, Bob...
, Mikko Innanen
Mikko Innanen
Mikko Innanen may refer to:*Mikko Innanen *Mikko Innanen...
and Lotte Anker
Lotte Anker
Lotte Anker is a Danish jazz saxophonist, and composer. With pianist Marilyn Crispell, she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble.-Life:She has studied music at the Copenhagen University from 1980-84....
are among others. Pasborg has toured the most of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, US and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
as a leader, also as a sideman.
His latest CD was named one of the "Best Debut Albums of 2007" All About Jazz-New York Best of 2007 New York
Pasborg was already behind the drums at the age of three. He received a present, a drumset it was, from a close friend of his parents who happened to be an acclaimed Danish drummer, namely Alex Riel
Alex Riel
Alex Riel, , is a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboards June 1968 edition.-Biography:Riel has recorded with, among others, Kenny Drew, Kenny Werner, Bob...
which also became Pasborg's first drum teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
.
In later years, while kept playing, he decided to attend prestigious Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
Conservatory
Music school
The term music school refers to an educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music.Different terms refer to this concept such as school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department or conservatory.Music instruction can be provided...
where the teachers were among others internationally respected Jazz performers such as Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
- Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 * Kirk in Copenhagen 1963 * Ben Webster in Denmark 1965-1971 Live at Danish Radio studios, Jazzhus Montmartre and Odd Fellow Palæet - Universal Music Denmark*One Flight Up 1964 *Sunday Walk 1969 - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 (with...
, Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen
Edmund Leonard "Ed" Thigpen was an American jazz drummer, best-known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965...
, Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....
and Atilla Engin
Atilla Engin
Atilla Engin is a Turkish American fusion jazz musician. From 1974 to 2001 he was active in Denmark as a musician and educator; he organized music festivals and represented Denmark as a musical ambassador...
to name few. During his studies at the conservatory, he met other young musicians, thirteen of them, which they together formed an independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
called ILK Music.
| John Kelman (All About Jazz, USA) said about Pasborg: "Percussionist Stefan Pasborg is a young Dane who has, in the past several years, studied with artists including Joey Baron, Jim Black and Daniel Humair—and given his experience, it is no surprise that his playing is daring, although it sometimes seems barely on the edge of sanity. But through it all he demonstrates a strong command of the kit; even at its most crazed this is no random bashing." All About Jazz, John Kelman review of Toxikum, published March 25, 2004 |
Awards
- Danish Music Awards Jazz 2004 "New Name Of The Year"
- Jazz Discovery of the Year 2004 for the album Toxikum released by Pasborg.
Both awards were given by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI
IFPI
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...
).
As A Leader/Coleader
- Delirium co-led with Finnish saxophonist Mikko InnanenMikko InnanenMikko Innanen may refer to:*Mikko Innanen *Mikko Innanen...
, Fiasko Records - 2002 Finland - Toxikum co-led with lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockunas with among others Marc DucretMarc DucretMarc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2...
and John TchicaiJohn TchicaiJohn Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
, ILK Music - 2003 Denmark - Ibrahim Electric co-led with Danish guitarist Niclas Knudsen and Danish Hammond-organist Jeppe Tuxen, ILK Music - 2004 Denmark
- Ibrahim Electric Meets Ray Anderson by Ibrahim ElectricIbrahim ElectricIbrahim Electric is a Danish band situated primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibrahim Electric are widely famous in Denmark for their experimental music, many genres, including jazz, funk, afro-beat, surf and many more...
featuring American trombonist Ray AndersonRay AndersonRay Anderson may refer to:*Ray Anderson , light heavyweight boxer*Ray Anderson *Ray Anderson , jazz trombone and trumpet player...
, Stunt Records - 2005 Denmark - Fra De Varme Lande, co-led with Danish guitarist Niclas Knudsen, Danish accordionist Anders Vesterdahl and Danish sousaphonist Jakob Munck, ILK Music - 2006 Denmark
- Absinthe by Ibrahim ElectricIbrahim ElectricIbrahim Electric is a Danish band situated primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibrahim Electric are widely famous in Denmark for their experimental music, many genres, including jazz, funk, afro-beat, surf and many more...
, Stunt Records - 2006 Denmark - Ibrahim Electric Meets Ray Anderson - Again by Ibrahim ElectricIbrahim ElectricIbrahim Electric is a Danish band situated primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibrahim Electric are widely famous in Denmark for their experimental music, many genres, including jazz, funk, afro-beat, surf and many more...
featuring American trombonist Ray AndersonRay AndersonRay Anderson may refer to:*Ray Anderson , light heavyweight boxer*Ray Anderson *Ray Anderson , jazz trombone and trumpet player...
Stunt Records - 2007 Denmark - Triplepoint with among others Marc DucretMarc DucretMarc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2...
, John TchicaiJohn TchicaiJohn Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
, Ray AndersonRay AndersonRay Anderson may refer to:*Ray Anderson , light heavyweight boxer*Ray Anderson *Ray Anderson , jazz trombone and trumpet player...
and Ellery EskelinEllery EskelinEllery Eskelin American tenor saxophonist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, raised in Baltimore, Maryland from the age of two. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were also musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and became a cult figure after his death in the little known...
, ILK Music - 2007 Denmark - Pasborg's Odessa, Stunt Records 2008 Denmark
- Brothers of Utopia by Ibrahim ElectricIbrahim ElectricIbrahim Electric is a Danish band situated primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibrahim Electric are widely famous in Denmark for their experimental music, many genres, including jazz, funk, afro-beat, surf and many more...
, Target Records - 2008 Denmark - X-tra large by Pasborg's Odessa 5, Stunt Records - 2010 Denmark
- Royal Air Maroc by Ibrahim ElectricIbrahim ElectricIbrahim Electric is a Danish band situated primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibrahim Electric are widely famous in Denmark for their experimental music, many genres, including jazz, funk, afro-beat, surf and many more...
, Target Records - 2010 Denmark
As A Sideman
- Blood Motions Rent RomusRent RomusRent Romus is an American saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay Area.-Beginnings:...
' Life's Blood Trio, Jazzheads, 1998 USA - Naked? by MadsOle Quartet, Cope Records - 2002 Denmark
- Live/Studio Recordings by Endorfin, TCB - 2003 Denmark
- Smash The Tomatoes MS4, ILK Music - 2007 Denmark
- Kibrick 5:2 by Marc Bernstein, Gateway - 2007 Denmark
- East African Prayer Meeting Suite/Nordic Suite by Jonas Müller, ILK Music - 2008 Denmark
- RPM by Rod Planet, with Liudas Mockunas and Jakob Riis, ILK Records - 2008 Denmark
- Vélo Vélo by Jakob Davidsen and Peter Fuglsang, Gateway Records, Denmark (2008)
- Grønland by Mark O'Leary, Aucourant Records - 2009 USA
- Humilitas Carsten DahlCarsten DahlCarsten Dahl is a Danish Jazz pianist. "Dahl is a truly great pianist" Chris Mosey said, in his All About Jazz review of Dahl's CD In Our Own Sweet Way released in 2009 with Alex Riel and Mads Vinding.-Biography:...
Experience, Storyville Records - 2010 Denmark