At age sixteen, he developed appreciation for the music of Barney Kessel, Stephane Grappelli and Milt Jackson as well for Free Jazz. At age eighteen, he discovered John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett. Today, Peter Herborn finds it the most natural thing in the world to be active in all of these fields. Before 2002 Peter Herbon’s artistic work was mainly devoted to contemporary Jazz. Between the years 1992-2002 he focused on liberating the Bigband from the stereotype of firmly defined formation of orchestral sound.