Lennart Åberg
Lennart Åberg (born February 26, 1942 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish jazz musician ( saxophone , flute, composition).
Live and act
Åberg played with Kurt Järnberg from 1960, then with Bosse Broberg , with whom he also directed a quintet, during his studies in Uppsala , and with Rolf Lindell and Gugge Hedrenius. In 1966 he became a member of the Swedish radio jazz group, of which he was temporarily artistic director and in whose recordings he was involved ( Terje Rypdal Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert ).
In 1972 he was one of the founding members of the Rena Rama fusion group . He led his own quartet and his own big band (albums Partial Solar Eclipse on JAPO 1977, Green Prints , Caprice 1986, Seven Pieces , Phono Suecia, 2000), for which he also composed.
Åberg has played with jazz musicians like George Russell , the Red Mitchell Quartet, Bob Brookmeyer , Don Cherry , Clark Terry , Kenny Wheeler , Billy Hart , John Scofield , Palle Mikkelborg and Carla Bley . He also played in Bosse Broberg's Nogenjo , in the quartet of Arne Domnérus , in Okay Temiz 'group Oriental Wind and on recordings by Björn J: son Lindh .
He taught jazz history at the Royal Academy of Music (KMH) in Stockholm. In 2002 he received the Django d'Or (Sweden) as Contemporary Star of Jazz , and in 2008 the Lars Gullin Prize .
literature
- Gunnar Holmberg: Constantly på gång! . DIG Jazz , No. 1 2006
Web links
- Biography (Svenska Filminstitutet) (Swedish)
- Short biography on europejazz.net (Engl.) ( Memento of 7 March 2008 at the Internet Archive )
- Lennart Åberg at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The trumpeters Jan Kohlin , Magnus Broo and Bosse Broberg play in the Lennart Åberg Seven Pieces Big Band ; the trombonists Bertil Strandberg , Mattias Cederberg ; the flugelhornist Tommy Knutsson ; the saxophonists Håkan Broström , David Wilczewski , Lennart Åberg and Alberto Pinton ; Mattias Ståhl vibraphone, David Karlsson piano, Christian Speering bass and Jonas Holgersson drums.
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SURNAME | Åberg, Lennart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition) |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsingborg |