Editing Jonas Hellborg (section)

==Recording career==
Hellborg began his music career in 1976 in Sweden touring with local rock acts. He was spotted by percussionist [[Reebop Kwaku Baah]] in a small club in Stockholm 1979 and he moved to London for a year to work with Reebop on different projects.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fox |first1=Brian |title=Jonas Hellborg: Bass Without Borders |url=https://www.bassplayer.com/artists/jonas-hellborg-bass-without-borders |website=Bassplayer.com |publisher=Future Publishing Limited Quay House |access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref> He played the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland in 1981 and met [[Michael Brecker]], who introduced him to John McLaughlin, [[Billy Cobham]] and other fusion stars.<ref>{{cite web |last1=von Trath |first1=Fritz |title=Nordic Authors: Jonas Hellborg |url=https://runeberg.org/authors/hellbjon.html |website=Runeberg.org |publisher=Lindköping University Sweden |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221140729/http://runeberg.org/authors/hellbjon.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was asked to join McLaughlin's reformed [[Mahavishnu Orchestra]] in 1983. He stayed with McLaughlin until 1988, touring and recording with Mahavishnu Orchestra. He also did several duet tours with McLaughlin during this time.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Prasad |first1=Anil |title=Jonas Hellborg: Grids of Reality |url=https://www.innerviews.org/inner/hellborg.html |website=Innerviews.org |access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>

In 1986 and 1987 he toured with a project featuring [[Ginger Baker]] on drums and [[Bernie Worrell]] on keyboards, which appears on Hellborg's 1988 album ''Bass''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Astarita |first1=Glenn |title=Jonas Hellborg; Bass |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bass-mw0000618324 |website=AllMusic |publisher=Rhythm One Group |access-date=4 January 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926031320/https://www.allmusic.com/album/bass-mw0000618324 |url-status=live }}</ref> They continued to perform together in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eriksson |first1=Cristoffer |title=Cream drummer Ginger Baker remembered |url=https://stargazed.net/news/cream-drummer-ginger-baker-1939-2019-remembered/ |website=Stargazed Magazine |publisher=COUVERT i SVERIGE AB |access-date=4 January 2020 |date=5 November 2019 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807095735/https://stargazed.net/news/cream-drummer-ginger-baker-1939-2019-remembered/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1988 Hellborg moved to New York and started his own band which first included keyboardist [[Aydin Esen]] and drummer [[Kenwood Dennard]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonas Hellborg - New Beginnings |url=https://www.abstractlogix.com/jonas-hellborg-new-beginnings/ |website=Abstract Logix |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203181804/http://www.abstractlogix.com/jonas-hellborg-new-beginnings/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and later the Johansson Brothers, Jens on keyboards and Anders on drums. He started a recording studio together with producer/bassist [[Bill Laswell]] called Greenpoint Studios. They recorded a multitude of records there until early 1993, including ''The Word'' together with [[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]], ''[[Octave of the Holy Innocents]]'' with [[Mike Shrieve]] and [[Buckethead]], ''Material's Hallucination Engine'', and ''E'' with the Johansson Brothers.

In 1993 he sold his part in the studio to Laswell and resettled in Paris, France. The following year he teamed up with guitarist [[Shawn Lane]], a cooperation that would last nine years. The first record was ''[[Abstract Logic]]'' with Ginger Baker's son [[Kofi Baker|Kofi]] on drums; this was followed by [[Michael Shrieve]]'s ''Two Doors''. By the third record they were joined by drummer [[Jeff Sipe]] and embarked on a long stretch that produced four records and a lot of touring between 1995 and 1997.

In 1998 Hellborg met percussionist [[V. Selvaganesh]] at a [[Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain]] concert in Paris. The two formed a musical partnership that has been ongoing since then. To start with, Selvaganesh joined Hellborg in duets and in different "classical" settings Hellborg was working on at the time. Later a group was formed, first in trio with Lane, then a quintet including Selvaganesh's two brothers V. Umashankar and V. Umamahesh. Two CDs and a DVD were produced with this group. After Shawn Lane's death in 2003, Hellborg has continued to explore amalgamations of Indian and Western music, working with Indian masters as [[Debashish Bhattacharya]], [[Niladri Kumar]], [[Vikku Vinayakram]], [[Tanmoy Bose]] and [[U. Shrinivas]]. He has also started a new [[Heavy metal music|metal]]-fusion project with guitarist [[Mattias IA Eklundh]] called Art Metal.

Hellborg founded his own record label, Day Eight Music (D.E.M.), in 1979, releasing his first solo bass record, ''The Bassic Thing'' – an early showcase of his pioneering chordal, and for the time very advanced, slapping approaches. It was the first LP ever to feature solely bass guitar. With the move to the US, a new entity was formed, called Bardo Music, that took over the responsibilities of Hellborg's output, now counting around 40 releases.