Herb Robertson And Mark Solborg

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Herb Robertsons work with Tim Berne, Bobby Previte, Bill Frisell, David Sanborn, Paul Motian, Barry Guy’s New Orchestra, Marc Ducret, New Jungle Orchestra, John Zorn, Roswell Rudd, Rashied Ali, Ray Anderson, Dewey Redman, Evan Parker, Charlie Haden Music Liberation Orchestra and so many others has placed him as a unique musician and carismatic improviser within Jazz and new improvised music. His melodic and sonorous approach draws freely on the entire tradition from Armstrong via Davis to Barry Guy, Gustafson, and their music of today. In recent years Mark Solborg has been playing a number of prestigeous European Jazzvenues and festivals in Copenhagen, Århus, Oslo, Grenoble, Strassbourg, Berlin, Leipzig, Vilnius, Beijing a.o. leading or co-leading the groups Revolver, Ventilator, moLd, Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun and of course Mark Solborg 4. His work as a composer and guitarist has been grammy-nominated, awarded by The Danish Arts Foundation and has received wide international acknowlegdement. A personal, unpolished and unconventional approach, whether dealing with odd-meter grooves, contrapuntal lines, complex harmony or just a couple of simple chords, is a cherished ambition and trademark. So far NOD is the 9th release from the Solborg workshop. Solborg: “ I really like the way you slowly bend an idea into something new. ..all of a sudden it’s something else and you never noticed when it started changing..” Robertson: “oh - you mean mutation.....” In 2008 the guitarist Mark

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