ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON ARTIST RECORDS 1972 (ARTISTLP508)

Details: 

Heavyweight Vinyl / 360 mcn white-white lightcardboard paper/ handily plasticization / 2 separated parts prints / handily gluing / PVC outers / original artwork / gatefold sleeve

Notes:

Torolf Mølgaard was born in Copenhagen in 1939 and started out playing tuba in a local brass
band before buying his first trombone at 15.  After a brief spell playing in military bands he joined
the Saratoga Jazz Band based in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city.
In 1961 Mølgaard played with tenor / alto saxophonist and clarinettist Jesper Thilo and released
his debut album, ‘Trombone!’ in 1964 on the Sonet label before joining the Danish Radio Big
Band that same year. He maintained a position in the band until 1973 and can be heard on
such classic and collectible recordings as ‘Sahib Shihab And The Danish Radio Jazz Group’
(Oktav, 1965) and Palle Mikkelborg & Radiojazzgruppen ‘The Mysterious Corona’ (Debut, 1967).
As well as playing with local Scandinavian groups, Mølgaard also performed frequently with
George Russell and Don Cherry, two American artist/composers who, like Sahib Shihab, based
themselves in Scandinavia for many years in the 1960s and 1970s.  Like many of the leading
European and Scandinavian jazz musicians of the era, Mølgaard was a sometime member of the
Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band and can be heard on the 1967 album ‘Out of the Bag Folk
Bag’ (Columbia). Other musical associations include work with Peter Herbolzheimer, Sender
Freies Berlin, Knut Kiesewetter, Marianne Rosenberg and led the ensemble, Trombones United.
The album ‘Lone Rider’ was originally recorded and released in a gatefold sleeve on the Danish
Artist/ Edition Wilhelm Hansen label in 1972.  The recording covers a lot of musical ground
including cool jazz, bebop and bossa nova and has long been a collector’s trophy piece due to
its limited original pressing. Among the stand out tracks are ‘Safari’ and a great cover of Dizzy
Gillespie’s classic ‘A Night in Tunisia’.

Personnel:
Torolf Mølgaard (tb) Erling Kroner (tb) Axel Windfeld (tb, arr) Ole Kurt Jensen (b-tb) Ole Kock
Hansen (p, celesta, el-p, arr) Ole Molin (g) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) Bjarne Rostvold (d,
perc) Kenny Drew (arr) Sahib Shihab (arr) Dage Jonsson (arr) Hans Henrik Ley (arr)