Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 25 January 2003 through Bardo Records. The album merges contemporary jazz-fusion and traditional Indian improvised music[2][3][4] and features guitarist Shawn Lane in his last officially released studio recording before his death in September of that year,[5] as well as the sons of ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram: Selvaganesh (kanjeera), Umashankar (ghatam) and Umamamesh (vocals), who also perform passages of konnakol, the vocal "scatting" often used as a memory device by Indian percussionists.[6]
The album's name stands for a common cross-cultural ideal image, beyond vanity and self-identity, also present in this kind of musical communication.[7]
^V, PV (February 1, 2003). "Jonas Hellborg Icon". Billboard (pg. 43). Retrieved October 27, 2012.
^Prosser, Lee (January 12, 2004). "ICON BY JONAS HELLBORG". Jazz Review. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2012. Highly eclectic and imaginative, composer Jonas Hellborg paves the way for new jazz coming out of India.
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