When the world-famous Danish drummer Alex Riel died in June last year, he was sent off with a drum salute from no less than nine of Denmark's greatest drummers in the Christianskirken in Christianshavn.

Among them was drummer Stefan Pasborg, who is Riel's godson and has learned his playing from the master himself.

Now Stefan Pasborg's trio is paying tribute to the great legend at two concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre in July during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Over the past 20 years, Stefan Pasborg has established himself on the Danish and international music scene as a serious and innovative musician who has collaborated and recorded with big names such as: John Tchicai, Miroslav Virtuos and Tomasz Stanko.

He has played numerous concerts all over the world. His style ranges widely from jazz, afro, Balkan and rock. Pasborg's current trio consists of the two recognized heavyweights on the jazz scene, one of Denmark's greatest pia...

When the world-famous Danish drummer Alex Riel died in June last year, he was sent off with a drum salute from no less than nine of Denmark's greatest drummers in the Christianskirken in Christianshavn.

Among them was drummer Stefan Pasborg, who is Riel's godson and has learned his playing from the master himself.

Now Stefan Pasborg's trio is paying tribute to the great legend at two concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre in July during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Over the past 20 years, Stefan Pasborg has established himself on the Danish and international music scene as a serious and innovative musician who has collaborated and recorded with big names such as: John Tchicai, Miroslav Virtuos and Tomasz Stanko.

He has played numerous concerts all over the world. His style ranges widely from jazz, afro, Balkan and rock. Pasborg's current trio consists of the two recognized heavyweights on the jazz scene, one of Denmark's greatest pianists Carsten Dahl, and on saxophone and flute it is the critically acclaimed wind virtuoso Frederik Lundin.

The trio plays their own compositions and makes themselves known with a versatile sound that mixes Nordic noir with frameless, American free-jazz. Dahl and Lundin can paint ominous pictures in a dystopian universe like few others, to which Pasborg's razor-sharp, percussive explosions force the music to new heights.

A cosmos emerges where the sense of time is often disregarded in favor of the free improvisational art that the three artists each master.

The trio's album “DEAR ALEX” will be released in April....

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