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Vision

1.1M streams

1,118,637

Anything But Grey

422.3K streams

422,271

Hommage/Once Upon A Time

196.3K streams

196,331

Strands (Live at the Danish Radio Conc...

140.1K streams

140,100

Song....Tread lightly

66.8K streams

66,813

The Garden Is A Woman

45.1K streams

45,090

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

28.4K streams

28,425

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

27K streams

26,994

Awareness

17.9K streams

17,890

Ashoka Suite

7.5K streams

7,531

Biography

Palle Mikkelborg is a fine trumpeter who is best-known stateside for his Aura suite, which Miles Davis recorded in 1984. Self-taught on trumpet, Mikkelborg started working professionally in 1960. He joined the Danish Radio Jazz Group in 1963 and led it during 1967-1972. Mikkelborg performed at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival in a quintet and worked through the years with such players as Thomas Clausen, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Terje Rypdal, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek, George Russell, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Karin Krog, and George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band. He has recorded as a leader for Debut, Metronome, Sonet, Storyville, and ECM. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi