Lennart Åberg

Lennart Åberg (2009)

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 .

Lennart Åberg with band (Stockholm Jazz Festival 2009)

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

Commons : Lennart Åberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.

personal data
SURNAME	Åberg, Lennart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helsingborg

[1] 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.