Fredrik Ljungkvist
Fredrik Ljungkvist (born November 29, 1969 in Kristinehamn ) is a Swedish jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , composition ).
Live and act
Ljungkvist, the son of a saxophonist, grew up in a jazz- oriented environment and studied at the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm from 1989 . He played with some of the city's foremost bands like the Fredrik Norén Band , Lina Nyberg's group (whom he is married to) and Per “Texas” Johansson's band before founding the Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet in 1993 . Yun Kan 5 was created in 2005 .
He worked with musicians such as Anders Jormin , Raymond Strid and Mats Gustafsson , Marc Ducret , John Taylor , Axel Dörner and Cecilia Persson and performed as a member of Ken Vandermark's band in Europe and the USA. Ljungkvist became really well known with the Swedish-Norwegian group Atomic , for which he writes an essential part of the program. He also proves his compositional skills in his own tentet , Yun Kan 10 , which is unusually cast (with two percussion instruments and bass instruments) .
Discographic notes
- Fallin Papers ( Dragon Records , 1995) with Filip Augustson , Torbjörn Gulz
- Walk, stop. Look and Walk (Crazy Wisdom, 2000) with Johan Berthling , Raymond Strid
- Fungus (Moseroble, 2003) with Johan Berthling, Raymond Strid
- Yun Kan 12345 (Caprice, 2004) with Klas Nevrin , Per Åke Holmlander , Mattias Welin , Jon Fält
- Yun Kan 5 Badaling (2007)
- Yun Kan 10 Ten (Hoob Jazz, 2013) with Sofia Jernberg , Mats Äleklint , Per Åke Holmlander, Klas Nevrin, Mattias Risberg , Katt Hernandez , Mattias Welin, Jon Fält, Raymond Strid
- Joakim Milder , Fredrik Ljungkvist, Pär-Ola Landin & Christopher Cantillo : Trädet (El Dingo Records, 2018)
- Fredrik Ljungkvist - Kris Davis - Ole Morten Vågan - Øyvind Skarbø : Inland Empire ( Clean Feed Records , 2020)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ljungkvist, Fredrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristinehamn |