Georg Riedel (jazz musician)

Georg Riedel (2010)

Georg Riedel (born January 8, 1934 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ) is a Swedish jazz bassist and film composer.

Live and act

Riedel came to Sweden with his parents when he was four. In Stockholm he first studied classical cello, but then switched to double bass and jazz. In 1948 he founded the Boogie Bop Six together with Lasse Bagge and Rune Öfwerman . Later he often played with the Swedish jazz musician Jan Johansson , including on his album Jazz på svenska (1963), which is based on folk melodies. He has also performed with Arne Domnérus , Lars Gullin , Gunnar Svensson , Egil Johansen , Rune Gustafsson , the trumpeter Jan Allan and the Swedish radio big band of Harry Arnold . In 1976 he directed the Swedish Radio Jazz Group for a production with Terje Rypdal ( Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert ).

Since the 1960s Riedel has also been writing film music, including for television films based on Astrid Lindgren , with whom he worked until the 1980s, first for the television series Pippi Longstocking (1968) together with his friend Jan Johansson, and later for Wir Kinder aus Bullerbü and Michel from Lönneberga . The signature melody for the very successful cartoons that followed Gunilla Bergström 's children's books , in which Willi Wiberg plays the leading role, also comes from Riedel. Many of these songs are well known in Sweden and are sung on certain occasions, such as the last day of school before the summer holidays, in most school classes up to sixth grade.

Riedel was awarded the Lars Gullin Prize in 2005. In 2006 he received the Django d'Or (Sweden) as a Master of Jazz .

Riedel's daughter Sarah Riedel, born in 1979, is active as a jazz and pop singer. She works occasionally with her father, for example on his album Cornelis vs. Riedel (2011), on which she sings  texts by Cornelis Vreeswijk in Georg Riedel's setting with Nicolai Dunger , or on the album Emil, Pippi, Karlsson & Co (2013) with him and with the Norrbotten Big Band .

Film music (selection)

• 1964: Wild West Story
• 1964: Two ( To )
• 1965: The Depraved ( Morianerna )
• 1974: Karlsson on the Roof ( Världens bästa Karlsson )

literature

• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Georg Riedel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anneke Müller: Pippi's songs have bohemian roots. In: Karlsbader Zeitung , December 8, 2006.