Gyllene circles

Gyllene Cirkeln , The Golden Circle , was a jazz club that existed from 1962 to 1967 in the ABF House (ABF is the Swedish Workers' Education Center, a kind of adult education center) in Stockholm , Sveavägen 41.

Before the opening of the Gyllene Cirkeln , jazz concerts in Stockholm were mainly held in basement clubs, amusement parks and dance halls (such as Nalen). In Sweden, jazz (the swing direction ) was very popular as dance music in the 1950s. After swing was increasingly displaced by pop and rock 'n' roll and a new generation of Swedish jazz musicians played more progressive styles of modern jazz , the opening of the Golden Circle in 1962 was just the right time. Numerous foreign guest musicians found a suitable performance location here and published live recorded records there, which with the addition ... at the Golden Circle keep the club in memory. Above all the famous recording of the Ornette Coleman Trio (with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett senior ) At the Golden Circle Stockholm (Blue Note Records, 2 LP, 1965). Today there is a permanent photo exhibition on the club in the ABF building.

Selection list of the musicians who performed there

Cat Anderson Albert Ayler Don Byas Don Cherry Ornette Coleman Lou Donaldson Kenny Dorham

Bill Evans Kind farmer Dexter Gordon Johnny Griffin Jim Hall Coleman Hawkins David Izenzon

Keith Jarrett Thad Jones Krzysztof Komeda Charles Lloyd Jack McDuff Charles Moffett Sunny Murray

Pink Floyd Bud Powell George Russell Shirley Scott Stuff Smith Archie Shepp Sonny Stitt

Idrees Sulieman Steve Swallow Cecil Taylor John Tchicai Lucky Thompson Stanley Turrentine Ben Webster

From the Swedish jazz scene e.g. B .:

Palle Danielsson Arne Domnérus Börje Fredriksson Rolf Billberg Bosses Broberg

Rolf Ericson Lars Gullin Bengt Hallberg Jan Johansson Fredrik Norén

Bernt Rosengren Lars Sjösten Eje Thelin Lars Werner Monica Zetterlund

literature

• Åke Abrahamsson, Nils Edström, Christer Landergren: The Gyllene Cirkeln. Jazzen på 60-talet. Prisma Verlag, Stockholm 2002, ISBN 91-518-3989-X (Swedish).

Web links

• Website for the permanent exhibition in the ABF house about the club
• Lars Westin Jazz in Sweden to the club
• Pink Floyd Setlist - Gyllene Cirkeln, Sep 10, 1967 (Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright)

Coordinates: 59 ° 20 ′ 19.7 "  N , 18 ° 3 ′ 36"  E