Jonas Hellborg
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Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | Bass |
Jonas Hellborg (born 7 June 1958) is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with
Recording career
Hellborg began his music career in 1976 in Sweden touring with local rock acts. He was spotted by percussionist
In 1986 and 1987 he toured with a project featuring Ginger Baker on drums and Bernie Worrell on keyboards, which appears on Hellborg's 1988 album "Bass".[4] They continued to perform together in 1989.[5]
In 1988 Hellborg moved to New York and started his own band which first included keyboardist
In 1993 he sold his part in the studio to Laswell and resettled in Paris, France. The following year he teamed up with guitarist
In 1998 Hellborg met percussionist
Hellborg founded his own record label Day Eight Music (D.E.M.) in 1979 releasing his first solo bass record The Bassic Thing – an early showcase of his pioneering chordal, and for the time very advanced, slapping approaches. It was the first LP ever to feature solely bass guitar. With the move to the US, a new entity was formed, called Bardo Music, that took over the responsibilities of Hellborg's output, now counting around 40 releases.
Musical equipment
Hellborg has been involved in instrument design from early in his career. His work includes a signature model for Aria, the first ever biamped bass amplifier (in cooperation with Italian company FBT), a double neck bass, fretted and fretless, for British company Wal in 1983, and, in 1984, an acoustic bass in collaboration with master luthier Abraham Wechter.
After working with a half dozen other companies with signature models and inventions he, together with the German manufacturer
Hellborg published two books in the early 80s with Music Sales of London, one on
Acting
As a teenager Hellborg appeared as an actor in the TV series Hem till byn (Home to the Village), a widely popular dramatic series inspired by everyday life in Sweden, in which Jonas's mother, actress Tove Waltenburg, played one of the main characters. He appeared in the first three seasons, in 1971, 1973 and 1976, as well as in one episode in season four (in 1990), where his character has become a famous bass player. According to IMDb[unreliable source?], playing Anders Persson in Hem till Byn is his only acting credit.
Discography
- As band leader
- The Bassic Thing (solo bass) (1979), Day Eight Music
- Dreamland (1983), Day Eight Music
- Elegant Punk (solo bass) (1984), Day Eight Music
- Axis (1986), Day Eight Music
- Bass (1988), Day Eight Music
- Adfa (1989), Day Eight Music
- The Silent Life (acoustic solo bass) (1991), Day Eight Music
- Jonas Hellborg Group (1990), Day Eight Music
- Jonas Hellborg Group E (1991), Day Eight Music
- The Word (1991), Axiom
- Ars Moriende (1994), Day Eight Music (with Glen Velez)
- Abstract Logic (1995), Bardo
- Octave of the Holy Innocents (1993), Day Eight Music (re-released 2003, Bardo)
- Temporal Analogues of Paradise (1996), Bardo
- Time Is the Enemy (1997), Bardo
- Aram of the Two Rivers (1999), Bardo
- Zenhouse (1999), Bardo
- Good People in Times of Evil (2000), Bardo
- Personae (2002), Bardo
- Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering (2003), Bardo
- Paris (2004) (DVD), Bardo
- Kali's Son (2006), Bardo
- Art Metal (2007), Bardo
- The Jazz Raj (2014), Bardo
- With The Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Mahavishnu (1984), Warner Bros.
- Adventures in Radioland (1986), Relativity
- With Deadline
- Dissident (1991), Day Eight Music
- Down by Law, Cell
- With Michael Joseph Smith
- Faces, Day Eight Music
- All our steps, Day Eight Music
- With Michael Shrieve
- Two Doors (1995), CMP, with Shawn Lane
- THE LEAVING TIME, NOVUS/BMG
- With Public Image Ltd
- Album, Virgin
- With Trilok Gurtu
- Usfret, CMP
- With Sultan Khan and Fazal Qureshi
- Friends Across Boundaries, Ninaad Music
- With Ginger Baker
- Unseen Rain, Day Eight Music
- Middle Passage, Axiom
- With Kollektiv
- feat. Jonas Hellborg, ITM
- With Jens Johansson
- Fjäderlösa tvåfotingar, Day Eight Music
- With Anders Johansson
- Shutka, Day Eight Music
- Red Shift, Heptagon
- With RAF (feat. Peter Brötzmann, Bill Laswell, Jamal Evans)
- Ode to a Tractor (1992), Day Eight Music
- With Reebop
- Melodies in a Jungle Man's Head, Day Eight Music
- With Shining Path
- No Other World (1992)
- With Busch-Werk
- Busch-Werk & the Masters of Groove (DVD) (2009), Zauberhaus-Records (feat. Nippy Noya, and Famoudou Konaté)
- Trance (2011), Zauberhaus-Records (feat. Nippy Noya, Famoudou Konaté, and Baba Sissoko)
References
- ^ Fox, Brian. "Jonas Hellborg: Bass Without Borders". Bassplayer.com. Future Publishing Limited Quay House. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ von Trath, Fritz. "Nordic Authors: Jonas Hellborg". Runeberg.org. Lindköping University Sweden. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Prasad, Anil. "Jonas Hellborg: Grids of Reality". Innerviews.org. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Astarita, Glenn. "Jonas Hellborg; Bass". AllMusic. Rhythm One Group. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ Eriksson, Cristoffer (5 November 2019). "Cream drummer Ginger Baker remembered". Stargazed Magazine. COUVERT i SVERIGE AB. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ "Jonas Hellborg - New Beginnings". Abstract Logix. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Friedland, Ed (June 2008). "Jonas Hellborg: Take the Reins". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.