Jonas Hellborg

To Jonas Hellborg music is not simply entertainment, it is necessary for our balance and well being as humans, his devotion in pursuing this concept defining his well over four decades international music career with some of the leading exponents of jazz, Indian and western classical music.

Labeled as innovator and rule breaker, he simply takes the shortest, most direct way to essence and truth, even if that means banishing tabus or inferior standards, putting minds out of their comfort zone.

The way he came to the music world's attention with a solo performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1981 is evidence of that. From an electric bass player, this was at the time unheard of. It was as well following another first in history, Hellborg's first solo album in 1979, quite unthinkable for those days, a record featuring solely electric bass.

Steve Smith & Vital Information, Area 51-Anton Chekurov and Paolo Fresu, plus Steve Khan, Garaj Mahal and Virgil Donati

by Len Davis
January 5, 2025

New music with Steve Smith and Vital Information, Area 51 with Celso Pixinga, Steve Hunt and Tim Miller, Indian guitarist Amyt Datta and Canadian guitarist Thomas Polychuck. Russian saxophonist Anton Chekurov, Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu and Brazilian bassist Thiago Espirito Santo. Old favourites Steve Khan, Jonas Hellborg with the late Shawn Lane, Jam Band Garaj Mahal, ...

Souvik Dutta: 20 Years of Abstract Logix

by Mike Jacobs
September 27, 2024

If you are a music lover, you may already know the name Souvik (pronounced show-vik) Dutta. Over the last 20 years, he has taken his Abstract Logix enterprise from a pre-YouTube streaming platform to a music retail website to a niche imprint to a respected independent label boasting a top-tier roster that includes the likes of ...

The late Dean Brown, Rodney Holmes, Richard Hallebeek and Kazumi Watanabe

by Len Davis
September 1, 2024

The late Dean Brown, drummer Rodney Holmes, Netherlands musicians Frans Vollink and Richard Hallebeek and Canadian bassist Alain Caron. Japanese fusion with Kazumi Watanabe, and T Square, bassist Jonas Hellborg and Polish pianist Krzysztof Herdzin.Playlist Dean Brown “Breaksong" from DB 3-Live at Cotton Club (BHM) 00:00 Rodney Holmes “The Bronx Experiment" from Twelve Months ...

Michel Camilo, Steve Khan, Jaco Pastorius, Jean-Luc Ponty and Jim Beard

by Len Davis
July 21, 2024

Continuing with music from 1990-1991 featuring Michel Camilo, Steve Khan, Face To Face with Gerald Gradwohl, Jaco Pastorius Live in Italy and Jean-Luc Ponty. Swedish bassist Jonas Hellborg, the late Jim Beard, Frank Gambale and al Di Meola. Frank Gambale and Al Di Meola. Playlist Michel Camilo “On The Other Hand" from Why Not ...

The Concert of Europe

By Jonas Hellborg

Label: Bardo Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Moon Suite P.1; Moon Suite P. 2; Moon Suite P. 3; Zakir; African Genesis; Ashhark; Tim Hunt.

Yo Miles, Jonas Hellborg, Tunnels, Richard Hallebeek, Brett Garsed

by Len Davis
December 8, 2023

Music from 2000-2005 continues. Yo Miles, Jonas Hellborg, Richard Hallebeek and Brett Garsed. Frank Gambale, Michael Brecker and Gary Husband. Playlist Yo Miles “Jabali Pt 1" from Sky Garden (Cuneiform) 00:00 Jonas Hellborg “Kidogo" from Octave of The Holy Innocents (Bardo) 07:10/li> Tunnels “The Syzygy Incident" from The Art OfLiving Dangerously (BuckyBall) 14:31 Richard ...

Jonas Hellborg: The Concert of Europe

by John Eyles
September 17, 2023

Swedish bass guitarist Jonas Hellborg has the knack of being in the right place at the right time when it comes to meeting reputed musicians; in 1981, after he played solo bass at the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland, he was introduced to guitarist John McLaughlin and other fusion stars. He was soon asked to join ...

'90s Music Revisited With Michael Shrieve, Lost Tribe And Adam Holzman

by Len Davis
April 16, 2023

We go back to the '90s and early 2000s with drummer Michael Shrieve, Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, Lost Tribe, Adam Holzman, Vital Information and guitarist Greg Howe. Plus bassist Michael Manring, Tunnels and Tribal Tech Playlist Michael Shrieve “Baraji" from Two Doors (CMP) 00:00 Jonas Hellborg-Shawn Lane “Heretics" from Time Is The Enemy (Bardo) ...

Michael Shrieve: Palace Of Dreams

by Mike Jacobs
March 17, 2023

From the dual-project, double album Two Doors (CMP, 1995) that features drummer Michael Shrieve manning the drum kit in two different trios, it's arguably the Deep Umbra disc with bassist Jonas Hellborg and guitarist Shawn Lane that is the brighter half of that binary star. Shrieve may indeed get top billing here but like so many ...