Gunnar Bergsten

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Gunnar Bergsten (* 26. March 1945 in Lidköping , † 5. February 2011 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish jazz - baritone saxophonist .

Live and act

Bergsten began his career in the 1960s after studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, in the bands of Rolf Ericson and Bernt Rosengren . In the early 1970s he played in the prog formation Fläsket Brinner, in 1971 in Maffy Falay's band Sevda , which merged Turkish music with jazz, and in 1973 in the blues rock band Levande livet . During this time Bergsten worked as a session musician with Bo Hansson ( Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings 1969, Magician's Hat , 1972 and Attic Thoughts , 1975); and with Rosengren on recordings such as Notes from the Underground (1973), furthermore with the pianists Lasse Werner and Lars Sjösten , on whose Lars Gullin project with Lee Konitz he participated in 1983 as well as on his album Roots and Relations , which was released in 1989 was awarded the Gyllene Skivan . In the 1980s he was also a member of the quartet of saxophonist Tommy Koverhult . In the 1990s he recorded his album The Good Life with Peter Nordahl (piano), Patrik Boman (bass) and Leif Wennerstrom (drums) for the Arietta label , for which he received a Grammis in 1995 . The album Porgy and Bess followed in 1996 , on which Bernt Rosengren also took part as a guest soloist. With Nordahl he recorded the duo album Play Lars Gullin in 2000 . In the 2000s he worked with Patrik Boman's Seven Piece Machine and outside of jazz with the formation Anekdoten around the singer Anna Sofi Dahlberg.

Appreciation

Bergsten was awarded the Lars Gullin Prize in 1999. According to Alex Henderson, his playing is reminiscent of Gerry Mulligan , but with a larger range, without the aggressive style of Cecil Payne or Pepper Adams . Cook / Morton consider Bergstren to be on a par with baritone saxophonists such as Lars Gullin, Mulligan, Serge Chaloff and Harry Carney .

Web links

Lexical entry

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Gunnar Bergsten at Last FM
  2. ↑ Baryton saxophonist Gunnar Bergsten (1945-5 / 2 2011) at DIGJazz
  3. ↑ Obituary in Expressen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bergsten died before February 6, 2011.@1@ 2Template: dead link / www.expressen.se  
  4. ↑ In Memoriam: Gunnar Bergsten är död, Orkester Journalen of February 6, 2011
  5. ↑ obituary in Dn.se
  6. ↑ See Seven Piece Machine (review) at Allmusic (English)
  7. ↑ Gunnar Bergsten at Discogs
  8. ↑ Cf. Gunnar Bergsten at Allmusic (English)
  9. ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, p. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Bergsten, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lidköping
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2011
Place of death Stockholm