Jonas Hellborg with Buckethead and Michael Shrieve-Octave of the Holy Innocents-1993

JONAS HELLBORG was born 1958 in gothenburg, sweden. he taught himself to play the bass at age 12. influenced by artists such as jimi hendrix, cream, and deep purple, hellborg played mainly blues and heavy rock.
in 1972 he heard a record that changed his perception of music. this album, the inner mounting flame, by the mahavishnu orchestra (featuring english guitarist john mclaughlin) would not only influence his music, but his career as well. formal studies in jazz and classical music started at the age of sixteen. at this time he became involved with a free form group. he listened to albert ayler, john coltrane. he studied miles davis' development from the early part of his career through the beginning of the seventies when davis produced, in a silent way, and bitches brew.
in this context, hellborg rediscovered john mclaughlin. mclaughlin would serve as the main influence for hellborg who was exploring a jazz/rock idiom by playing small clubs in the south of sweden.

dissatisfied with the various rock groups he had been touring with, hellborg turned to more challenging music and solo concerts. in 1981, he was invited to play at the montreux jazz festival. michael brecker was impressed by hellborg's playing there and introduced him to many of the jazz greats including his long-time idol john mclaughlin. hellborg sent him some tapes of his music.

later in 1981, brecker invited hellborg to new york to open for "steps" at several club dates. upon his return from the united states, hellborg was approached by percussion great, reebop kwaku baah of traffic fame. the two worked for a year in london on a recording project that was halted by reebop's tragic death in the latter part of 1982. hellborg went back to london to complete this album entitled "melodies in a jungle man's head" in february 1983.

in 1982 hellborg created his own record label, day eight, in order to allow himself and others to record with full artistic freedom. the first record was hellborg's first solo bass release, "the bassic thing". in may 1983, hellborg joined avantgarde pianist michael j. smith and drummer michael shrieve (of santana fame) to record day eight's second release, "all our steps". shortly after this mclaughlin invited hellborg to join the reforming mahavishnu orchestra. the first performance hellborg did with mclaughlin was a television show in paris where they played in trio with billy cobham on drums. early 1984 saw the addition of saxman bill evans and keyboardist mitch forman and the group released the self-titled album "mahavishnu".

at the same time hellborg released his second solo bass album "elegant punk". before the first mahavishnu tour ex - pat metheny group drummer danny gottlieb replaced billy cobham, the group completed two world tours.

in 1984, at the start of mahavishnu's us tour, michael shrieve introduced hellborg to bill laswell. at that time laswell was recording deadline's "down by law", and invited hellborg to play on it. the next year laswell dug ginger baker out of retirement in italy, and had him play on pil's new record. passing through new york on tour again hellborg also contributed to this album entitled "album".

in 1985 hellborg and mclaughlin started playing duet concerts. in an effort to explore a different musical mood, the two created an intimate chamber music kind of jazz/funk that was almost classical in its texture. additionally, that same year, hellborg recorded "axis" with parliament/funkadelic keyboardist bernie worrell, singer bernard fowler and drummer anton fier. 1986 saw the release of the second mahavishnu album, "adventures in radioland" (recorded in milan, italy) and another world tour. in 1987, mclaughlin-hellborg duo toured throughout japan, the us and europe.

later the same year hellborg teamed up with worrell and ginger baker to record "bass" and tour europe. also in the same year he recorded with german musicians jochen schrumpf (guitar), thomas bettermann (keyboards), waldo karpenkiel (drums) and klaus dapper (sax) a cd called "kollektiv".

in 1988 mclaughlin and hellborg was joined by indian percussionist trilok gurtu for a tour of the us. after this tour hellborg left mclaughlin, but he recorded a record called "adfa" with trilok gurtu and ulf wakenius (guitar). after this he moved to new york and formed another trio with turkish keyboardist aydin esen and drummer kenwood dennard. this first incarnation of the jonas hellborg group toured europe doing concerts and tv shows but did no recording. the second version was formed by another bass player named anders nord and electronic drummer jaime salazar. the trio called "jonas hellborg group" recorded and toured in 1990. the third version was formed with keyboard player jens johansson and drummer anders johansson both from yngwie malmsteens rising force. the three swedish musicians recorded the cd called "e" which is a masterpeace of fusion and heavy-rock music. in 1990 jens joined dio for a record and a tour.

in 1990 hellborg and laswell created the greenpoint recording studio in new york. they also worked together on several recordings. hellborg played on the laswell produced ginger baker "middle passage". in 1991 they collaborated on deadline "dissident" and laswell produced hellborg's "the word" a record where hellborg and drummer tony williams were backed by a string quartet. this album is also the first feature of a unique instrument that hellborg took delivery of in 1989, the wechter acoustic bass guitar. built by luthier abraham wechter between 1986-1989. this instrument was also used to record hellborg's third solo bass album, "the silent life". hellborg produced jens johansson's "fjäderlösa tvafotingar " and ginger baker's "unssen rain" 1991.

in early 1992 hellborg/baker/ johansson toured europe. hellborg recorded four albums in 1992, raf, "ode to a tractor" (feat. laswell and peter brotzman), shining path, "no other world" (feat. gary "mudbone" cooper), anders johansson, "shu-tka", and an album with michael shrieve and buckethead entitled "octaves of the holy innocents".

in january 1993 hellborg moved to paris, had a year off from recording and toured extensively, doing solo concerts, toured with a group of middle eastern musicians, with michael shrieve, playing duos with several different percussionists and concerts together with the two johansson brothers. in 1994 hellborg recorded two new albums: "ars moriende", a duet record with the new york based frame drum player and percussionist glen velez, and "abstract logic" with guitarist shawn lane and drummer kofi baker.

he also worked on pieces for string quartet and a suite for cello and piano called hell bop, which had its first performance at a concert at the swedish culture centre in paris. 1995 took hellborg to china in january for recordings with different chinese musicians including flute player du ci wen. this was followed by recordings with michael shrieve and shawn lane. lane together with anders johansson joined hellborg for a tour of china - a first for a western "fusion" group.

the swedish national ballet company cullberg baletten decided to take music from the record "ode to a tractor" for a piece choreographed by lars max bethke.

the collaboration between jonas hellborg and shawn lane intensified over the years. from 1996-1999 hellborg and lane recorded several live albums with drummer and percussionist jeff sipe from concerts worldwide: "temporal analogues of paradise", "time is the enemy" and "zenhouse".

in this time hellborg was invited to travel to syria to play concerts with arabian musicians in damascus and aleppo. this performance can be listened to on "aram of the two rivers".

in 2000 hellborg and lane toured again, supported by the excellent indian percussionist v. selvaganesh, and recorded "good people in times of evil" in spoleto, italy. they planned a tour together with two indian musicians (mahesh, shankar) through europe in february and march 2001. but this tour was postponed till may 2001 due to visa problems of the indian musicians. the five musicians mainly played songs from "good people..." in a slightly more indian version.

in february 2002 bardo records released an album called "personae", a live recording of a concert in mainz, germany, of the year 1996. the album features jonas hellborg, jeff sipe and the incredible shawn lane. the trio toured usa and europe in april/ may 2002 and fascinated the audience with a mixture of worldmusic and fusion.

only one year later the album "icon" was released. jonas hellborg, shawn lane, v. umamahesh, v. umashankar and percussion master v.slevaganesh are playing a compination of western fusion and indan music. the 5 musicians played some concerts in europe.

in february 2003 jonas hellborg, shawn lane and italian drummer andrea marchesini toured india. a tour through europe followed, before shawn lane died of a lung desease in memphis on september 26, 2003.

in 2004 bardo records rereleased three albums which were out of print ("temporal analogues of paradies", "time is the enemy" and "octaves of the holy innocents").

also the first dvd called "paris" was released in 2004. it's a recording of the first concert on the european tour of 2001 which was at the legendary jazz club new morning in paris, france. jonas hellborg, shawn lane expanded their touring group to include percussionist selvaganesh and his two brothers, umashankar (percussion) and umamahesh (vocals).

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