Lars Erstrand

Lars Erstrand (* 27. September 1936 in Uppsala , † 11. March 2009 ) was a Swedish jazz - vibraphonist and bandleader of the Swing .

Career

Erstrand played the piano , tuba and trombone early in his career and switched to the vibraphone after listening to Lionel Hampton . With this he later recorded the album Two Generations for the Phontastic label. In the 1960s he worked with Ove Lind ; In 1972 he played with Benny Goodman . He worked as a sideman on many recordings and has released a number of albums under his own name on the Opus and Sittel label since the 1980s . Erstrand took part in recordings by Arne Domnérus , Joe Newman , the Peanuts Hucko All Stars , the Norbotten Big Band , Georg Riedel , Jesper Thilo and Bob Wilber .

Discography (selection)

As a leader

• Two Sides of Lars Erstrand (Opus, 1983)
• Lars Erstrand and Four Brothers (Opus, 1984)
• Beautiful Friendship First & Second Set (Sittel, 1992)
• 'S Wonderful (Sittel, 2000)

As a sideman

• Georg Riedel: Kirbitz (Phontastic, 1980/81)
• Arne Domnerus: Sugar Fingers (Phontastic, 1993)
• Swedish Swing Society Winter Swing (Sittel, 1994, with Antti Sarpila , Ulf Johansson , Björn Sjödin)
• The International All Stars Play Benny Goodman ( Nagel-Heyer , 1995, with Ken Peplowski , Howard Alden , Mark Shane , Len Skeat , Joe Ascione , Dave Ratajczak and Antti Sarpila, Allan Vaché )
• Bob Wilber: Everywhere You Go There's Jazz (Arbors, 1998)
• Jesper Thilo: Flying Home (Music Mekka, 1999)

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .

Web links

• Lars Erstrand at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sydsvenskan .se - dödsfall: Svenska jazzens Lionel Hampton ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 16, 2009