Georg Wadenius

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Jul på Svenska (with Arild Andersen & Jan Lundgren )
  SE 28 12/11/2009 (4 weeks)
Reconnection
  SE 17th 05/11/2010 (4 weeks)
Jul på Norska
  SE 46 12/27/2013 (1 week)
Psalmer (with Trio X )
  SE 34 04/04/2014 (1 week)

Georg (e) "Jojje" Wadenius (born May 4, 1945 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish fusion musician ( guitar , electric bass , vocals ) and music producer , who is best known internationally as a member of Blood, Sweat & Tears . He combines playing solo on the guitar "with unreal sounding vocalises ."

Live and act

Wadenius, who attended Adolf Fredrik's music school in Stockholm, was involved in some pop music recordings as a studio musician . From 1966 to 1972 he belonged to the Swedish band Made in Sweden , from 1971 also to Solar Plexus . In the field of jazz, he first worked as a bassist with Åke Persson , Rune Gustafsson , Björn J: son Lindh and as a guitarist with Monica Zetterlund . In 1972 he moved to the United States of America, where he played with Joe Henderson and then was a member of Blood, Sweat & Tears as a guitarist until 1975 .

He was a member of the band on the television show Saturday Night Live from 1979 to 1985 , but also recorded with Roberta Flack , Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross . He then worked with Steely Dan ( Alive in America , 1993–94), Aretha Franklin , Diana Ross , Dr. John , David Sanborn , James Brown , Marianne Faithfull , Kent , Paul Simon , Dionne Warwick, Roberta Flack, Donald Fagen and Michael Franks . He has also recorded albums with Paquito D'Rivera , Jeremy Steig , Ronnie Cuber , Howard Johnson , George Benson , Viktoria Tolstoy and the UMO Jazz Orchestra .

As a producer he worked with Anne Sofie von Otter and Inger Marie Gundersen.

Prizes and awards

In 1970 he received a Swedish "Grammis" with Made in Sweden ; His records with children's songs were also awarded a “Grammis”.

Discographic notes

  • Georg Wadenius (1987)
  • Georg Wadenius & Doug Katsarous Left Turn from the Right Lane (1999)
  • Reconnection (2010)
  • George Wadenius & Trio X Psalmer (2014)

with Blood, Sweat & Tears

  • New Blood (1972)
  • No Sweat (1973)
  • Mirror Image (1974)
  • New City (1975)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Sweden
  2. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1974, p. 512
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online February 11, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Wadenius, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wadenius, George; Wadenius, Jojje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish fusion musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm