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

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

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

Stefan Pasborg has established himself as a serious and innovative musician who has collaborated and recorded with big names such as John Tchicai, Miroslav Virtuos and Tomasz Stanko. His style ranges widely from jazz, Afro, Balkan to 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 the critically acclaimed wind virtuoso Fredrik Lundin.

The tr...

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

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

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

Stefan Pasborg has established himself as a serious and innovative musician who has collaborated and recorded with big names such as John Tchicai, Miroslav Virtuos and Tomasz Stanko. His style ranges widely from jazz, Afro, Balkan to 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 the critically acclaimed wind virtuoso Fredrik Lundin.

The trio plays their own compositions and stands out with a versatile sound that mixes Nordic noir with frameless, American free-jazz. Dahl and Lundin can paint pictures like few others, to which Pasborg's razor-sharp explosions take the music to new heights.

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

The trio's album “DEAR ALEX” has just been released....

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