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David Borgo

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David Borgo started playing alto saxophone at the age of 8. He had formative jazz experiences growing up in the Washington D.C. area, and went on to earn his B.M. in Jazz Studies at Indiana University, under the tutelage of renown jazz educator David N. Baker.

After graduation, David began touring widely, and his travel experiences in Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and more, sparked an interest in "world music" and the academic field of Ethnomusicology. He went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degress in the field from UCLA, studying with one of the world's preeminent Ethnomusicology faculty.

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Uplift

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: All the Time; Rejection; Reminiscence; InFormation; Cool Call; Uplift; Little Niles; The Lick; Fluctuating Friends

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Cycles

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cycles; Fire; 7 by 7; Bright Sun; Nocturnal; Sisyphus; Tanpura; Endless; Jurjuna

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Relational

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Prognostication; Whac-A-Mole; Solas; Something Borrowed Blues; Bass Urges; Affluenza; Empty Nest; Relational; Satiesfied; Russian Dragon; Nighty Naughty; Like Trane

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Persistence

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Pilgrimage; Segmented; Tabula Rasa; Peace of Mind; Blues Implication; Senescence; Relational View; Eudaimonia; Persistence

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Pathika

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mumbai; Mombasa; Aqaba; Limassol; Lisboa; Dubrovnik; Azrou; The Bath.

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Article: Album Review

David Borgo: Pathika

Read "Pathika" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


San Diego's David Borgo, a top-tier jazz saxophonist and an ethnomusicologist with a professorship day job at the University of California at San Diego, says, “Ethnomusicology is like the anthropology of music." He puts this concept into practice with his teaching for the “Semester At Sea." This educational cruise program takes students to various ...

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Cautiously Optimistic

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2022

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Suite of Uncommon Sorrows

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2021

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KaiBorg: IntraAction

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2020


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