Palle Mikkelborg

Palle Mikkelborg
220px Mikkelborg, performing at the Moers Festival, 2010
Background information
Born	(1941-03-06) 6 March 1941
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, arranger, producer
Instruments	Trumpet
Years active	1960–
Labels	ECM

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Palle Mikkelborg: Playing in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941) is a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960, and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene. He has released several solo records, and recorded with various co-founded groups, as well as appearing as sideman or arranger on numerous international records. Notable international collaborations include appearances with the Gil Evans Big Band, the George Russell Big Band, Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek, and Miles Davis, for whom he composed and produced the 1985 (released 1989) record Aura. In 2001 he was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize.

Discography

With Miles Davis

• Aura (Columbia, 1989)

With George Gruntz

• Theatre (ECM, 1983)

With Gary Peacock

• Guamba (ECM, 1987)

With Terje Rypdal

• Waves (ECM, 1978)
• Descendre (ECM, 1979)
• Skywards (ECM, 1995)
• Lux Aeterna (ECM, 2000)
• Vossabrygg (ECM, 2003)

With Dino Saluzzi

• Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South (ECM, 1985)

With Edward Vesala

• Satu (ECM, 1977)

External links

• Official website