Börje Fredriksson

Börje Fredriksson (* thirtieth June 1937 in Eskilstuna , Sweden , † 21st September 1968 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish jazz - saxophonist (tenor) and composer, the great in his short career in the 1960s influenced the development of modern jazz practiced in Sweden.

Fredriksson played in his own quartet in the early 1960s with Bobo Stenson (piano), Palle Danielsson (bass) and Fredrik Norén (drums) as well as in the bands of Eje Thelin and Bernt Rosengren . He played with the guitarist Rune Gustaffson ( Young Guitar , Metronome 1961) and, after its opening in 1962, often in the Golden Circle jazz club in Stockholm , for example with Bosse Broberg and his quartet. The more pragmatic Broberg remembers being impressed at the time by the uncompromising attitude with which Fredriksson turned to new trends in jazz (especially John Coltrane ). Fredriksson founded his own band, with which he recorded Intervall at Columbia in 1966 , which also received the Gyllene Skivan of the Orkesterjournals and earned him a state scholarship. His promising development ended at the age of 31 when he died in Stockholm's Årsta district.

His compositions were recorded in 1993 by the Fredrik Norén Band ( Sister Majs Blouse , with Stenson, Danielsson, Norén and saxophonist Joakim Milder ), which won the Swedish Grammy that same year. The Eskilstuna Jazz Club awards a scholarship on his behalf ( Börje Fredrikssons Minnesfond ).

In addition to the tenor saxophone, he also played the harmonica and French horn.

Web links

• Scholarship in his name
• Broberg to Fredriksson