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Tore Brunborg

Born in Trondheim, Norway 1960.
Studied at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim.

Played with (selection): Masqualero (Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Nils Petter Molvær)1982-1992.
Bo Stief, Rita Marcotulli, Jon Balke, Billy Cobham, Diederik Wissels, Anders Jormin, Lars Danielsson, Jarle Vespestad, Cecilie Nordby, Scandinavian Summit, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Diederik Wissels, Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Kenneth Sivertsen, Juni Dahr, Arild Andersen. Bjørn Alterhaug, Vigleik Storaas, Jon Eberson.

As a leader:

Tore Brunborg project (with Bugge Wesseltoft, Jon Christensen and Anders Jormin).
Tore Brunborg Gravity (with Bugge Wesseltoft, Anders Engen and Lars Danielsson) 2003.
Tore Brunborg Kvartett (with Håvard Wiik, Ingebrigt H. Flaten and Per O. Johansen) 2004-.
Tore Brunborg Trio (with Anders Jormin and Benita Haastrup) 2004-.
Tore Brunborg Kvartett (with Krister Jonsson, Ole Morten Vågan and Audun Kleive) 2006-.

Compositions (selection):

Comissions for:
Vossajazz 1989,
Tanum Church (music for big band, choir and soloists), Musikkflekken Workshop Big Band,
Fossegrimen Orchestra (concert for symphonic orchestra and saxophone), Visjoner, Hender (theatre music)
Venneslandsamlingen( jazz and poetry in the beat tradition)
Oslo Kammerorkester( chamber orchestra and solo saxophone) Visjoner, Markens Grøde (theatre music)
Summartonar, Tutlandante (music for large jazz ensemble)

Compositions for jazz groups a.o. Masqualero, Billy Cobham, Rita Marcotulli and solo projects. Source: Tore Brunborg

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Album Review

Mats Eilertsen: Hymn For Hope

Read "Hymn For Hope" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Norwegian bassist & composer Mats Eilertsen has done his best to stay active during the pandemic. His previous solo album Solitude Central (Hemli, 2021) was drawn from his captivating improvised performance during the 2020 Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival. Hymn For Hope is a quartet album, with Eilertsen's compositions augmented by a few brief collective improvisations. He is joined by saxophonist Tore Brunborg--a member of the band Masqualero, as well as appearing on ECM albums by Tord Gustavsen and Mathias Eick--guitarist ...

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Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Everblue

Read "Everblue" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


A due anni di distanza dall'ottimo Glass Song, realizzato in trio, la pianista Yelena Eckemoff, moscovita da oltre vent'anni stabilitasi negli Stati Uniti, allarga la formazione mantenendone l'impianto culturale: ai due monumenti della musica scandinava Arild Andersen e jon Christensen aggiunge infatti il sassofonista Tore Brunborg, per formare un quartetto dalla cifra meditativa e dal lirismo evocatico tipicamente nordici. Le composizioni di questo Everblue sono quasi tutte della pianista (fanno eccezione solo “Prism" e “Man," di Andersen), la ...

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Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Everblue

Read "Everblue" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


In a quick follow-up to her masterful two CD set Lions, Russian-born and now North Carolina-based pianist Yelena Eckemoff offers up Everblue, the most “ECM Records-sounding" set not on that deservedly esteemed label. It is, rather, released on her own L&H Productions. The names of the sidemen on the date explain in part the ECM-like sound: saxophonist Tore Brunborg, bassist Arild Andersen, and drummer Jon Christensen, the Norwegian contingent, are all long time ECM Records artists, as leaders ...

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New York Beat

Sounds of Norway

Read "Sounds of Norway" reviewed by Nick Catalano


Perhaps because of the staggering snowfalls which have occurred in the northeast since winter started, my mind recently turned to Scandinavia. I was listening to some recordings that I brought back from Denmark on a visit last year, and wondering what those Nordic musicians were up to these days when some new music arrived in the mail from Norway. Sadly, the jazz scene in this part of the world is quite intense, and virtually inaccessible to Americans. ...

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Album Review

Meadow: Blissful Ignorance

Read "Blissful Ignorance" reviewed by John Kelman


It's been out in Norway since late 2009, on the relatively small Hecca Records label, but any recording with a trio this fine deserves to be out in the world in a bigger way, and so Britain's Edition Records--no longer an upstart company, with over 20 releases in the past 30 months--has picked up Blissful Ignorance, repackaged it, and given it broader international distribution. When he was in Ottawa, Canada, in the fall of 2010, British pianist John Taylor spoke ...

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Tore Brunborg: Lucid Grey

Read "Lucid Grey" reviewed by John Kelman


Amongst the many surprises of the 2008 JazzNorway in a Nutshell trip was a performance--on a boat trip through the Bokna Fjord and Lysefjorden--by saxophonist Tore Brunborg and his trio, featuring bassist Ole Morten Vagan and drummer Erik Nyander. It was a brief but engaging performance, made all the more compelling with the knowledge that the trio was planning to head into the studio to record. Lucid Grey is the result, and it's a strong representation of what was heard ...

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Tore Brunborg & Jarle Vespestad: Orbit

Read "Orbit" reviewed by AAJ Staff


It’s a little different fro some duet records, and that’s a good thing. Rather than an endless cutting contest, Jarle Vespestad is clearly in the accompanist’s role, adding taps and shimers to Brunborg’s quiet musing. This is introspection, and you hear their thoughts as they take on standards in a non-standard way.

At the top is “Django”; Brunborg takes it slowly, stressing the sadness as it becomes a funeral march. Vespestad patters soft, brushes here, a shaker there, not following ...

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Recording

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Reaches New Heights Working With The Norwegian Dream Team Of Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, And Tore Brunborg On "Everblue"

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Reaches New Heights Working With The Norwegian Dream Team Of Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, And Tore Brunborg On "Everblue"

Source: All About Jazz

By Dan Bilawsky When pianist Yelena Eckemoff released Cold Sun (L & H Production, 2010)—a trio date with drumming legend Peter Erskine and Danish bass whiz Mads Vinding—the jazz world was introduced to a startlingly fresh voice destined for great things. Over the course of the six albums that followed, Eckemoff lived up to that promise, delivering organically-crafted music reflective of her classical background, fascination with the natural world, poetic soul, communicative spirit, and overall open-mindedness. Now, Eckemoff is poised ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Everblue

L & H Production
2015

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Everblue

L & H Production
2015

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SkyDive

ukjazz.com
2013

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Scent Of Soil

Vossa Jazz Records
2011

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Blissful Ignorance

Hollywood & Highland Summer Jazz Concert Series
2011

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