Andrés Ingólfsson
Andrés Ingólfsson (actually Andrés Sverrir Ingólfsson ; born July 11, 1935 in Iceland ) is an Icelandic musician (alto and tenor saxophone , clarinet and accordion ).
Andrés Ingólfsson was one of the few jazz musicians on the Icelandic scene; he began playing the accordion as a child and played at dance festivals. Then he switched to the clarinet, in the late 1950s to the alto and finally to the tenor saxophone. In 1956 he was a member of the Orion Quartet ; his musical role models were Benny Goodman on the clarinet and Lee Konitz on the saxophone . He performed in Icelandic clubs with the KK Sextet and later the Gudmundar Ingólfsson Trio . In 1959 he received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston .
Árni Egilsson dedicated his piece "Memory of Andres" to the memory of Andrés Ingólfsson .
Web links / source
- Portrait on All Music Guide by Eugene Chadbourne (engl.)
- Documentation of jazz in Iceland in the 1950s ( Memento from February 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (Icelandic)
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andrés Ingólfsson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ingolfsson, Andres Sverrir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iceland |