Bengt Nordström

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Bengt "Frippe" Nordström (born July 13, 1936 in Stockholm ; † October 23, 2000 there ) was a Swedish jazz and improvisation musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet ). He was the first producer of Albert Ayler's music .

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Nordström grew up in Djursholm . His parents died when he was a child; the inheritance made him financially wealthy, but he was initially placed under the tutelage of relatives. When he was 14 years old, he discovered jazz. After listening to mainly traditional jazz on record for a few years, he bought a clarinet in 1955. Gradually, he became increasingly interested in recent trends in jazz, such as the free jazz of Ornette Coleman . So he bought a plastic saxophone and began to play freely. As a result, he rented the rehearsal and recording room BRA Studio in Lilla Nygatan in Gamla Stan, where many jazz musicians of the younger generation met in the early 1960s. His playing was unfamiliar to his fellow musicians.

In 1962 he recorded Albert Ayler with Torbjörn Hultcrantz and Sune Spångberg . This became Ayler's first LP, which was released on Nordström's label Bird Notes and was later reissued by established record companies. Nordström recorded his album Psycology (together with Don Cherry and Bosse Skoglund ) on his label in 1963 , followed by several solo albums of his own. At times he was so close to Ayler's idiom that he was no longer considered an independent musician and was rejected by numerous colleagues. Since 1962 he has therefore mainly played solo concerts. Under the influence of Anthony Braxton , he performed with a wide variety of saxophones and clarinets in the 1970s. In 1977 he recorded with Sven-Åke Johansson and Alexander von Schlippenbach (the recordings were only released in 2015 under the title Stockholm Connection on umlaut ).

In 1975 he founded the group Miljövårdsverket , in which he invited established jazz musicians as well as unknown musicians to freely associated music that went beyond jazz. It was only with their album Now's the Frippe Time (1984), in which Björn Alke and Peeter Uuskyla were involved, that he succeeded in gaining critical acclaim. Due to illness, the number of his appearances decreased in the 1990s. Further albums followed posthumously, for example with Ayler Records .

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  1. ↑ https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb165960396
  2. ↑ The second LP was not put on by Nordström, possibly because of noise from the audience. Cf. Mats Gustafsson: Proofs of the second album
  3. ↑ a b Review: The Environmental Control Office
  4. ↑ Remember Bengt Frippe Nordström (Mats Gustafsson)
personal data
SURNAME Nordström, Bengt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frippe (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz and improvisation musician (tenor saxophone, clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2000
Place of death Stockholm