Gosta Rundqvist
Gösta Rundqvist (born February 8, 1945 in Iggesund , Hudiksvall municipality , † January 13, 2010 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish jazz musician ( piano , organ , vibraphone ), band leader and music producer .
biography
Gösta Rundqvist grew up in Iggesund in the north of Sweden and began performing as an accordionist in an amateur band at the age of 14. He began his professional career in a dance band, then switched to the vibraphone and moved to Hudiksvall in the 1960s , where he worked full-time outside the music business for a while. After switching to piano, he played with regional big bands , where he met musicians with whom he (as an organist) eventually founded the jazz rock band Splash , which was modeled on the fusion bands Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago . After this period he founded the quartet Excursions with saxophonist Håkan Lewin , which played in the style of modern jazz ; In 1976 he was also a member of the Sandviken Big Band. In 1979 he moved to Sandviken to work full-time as a music teacher for the next ten years. He also continued his collaboration with Håkan Lewin and also played in a quartet with saxophonist Jonken Jonsson and singer Lena Jansson.
In the 1990s Rundqvist worked with his own formation in the post-bop idiom, with which he presented the album Until We Have Faces on the Sittel label in 1994. He was also a member of the Nogenja Jazz Soloists Ensemble ("Nogenja" stands for Non Generation Jazz ) and played with the singer Svante Thuresson, Red Mitchell , Clark Terry , Johnny Griffin , Ken Peplowski and Toots Thielemans , who was a guest on one of his albums . Rundqvist himself was involved in recordings by Agneta Baumann , Bosse Broberg , Jörg Högman , Ulf Wakenius ( Dig In , 1997) and Putte Wickman in the 1990s . Most recently he worked as a producer for the singer Maria Winther ( Dreamsville ).
His son is the jazz drummer Fredrik Rundqvist.
Discographic notes
- Until We Have Faces (Sittel, 1994)
- Treecircle (Opus)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rundqvist, Gosta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iggesund , Hudiksvall (municipality) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2010 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |