Palle Mikkelborg

Palle Mikkelborg
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
Instrument	Trumpet
Years active	1960–present
Labels	ECM

Palle Mikkelborg: Playing in Aarhus, Denmark.

Palle Mikkelborg 2017.

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

Solo recordings

• The Mysterious Corona (Debut, 1967)
• Anything but Grey (Columbia, 1992)
• Futopia (Columbia, 1993)
• Song Tread LIghtly (2000)
• Voice of Silence: Homage to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Stunt 2013)

With Miles Davis

• Aura (Columbia, 1989)

With Dexter Gordon

• More Than You Know (SteepleChase, 1975)

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