Per Henrik Wallin

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Per Henrik Wallin (2002)
Per Henrik Wallin during a concert in Stockholm (2005)

Per Henrik Wallin (born July 17, 1946 in Karlsborg , † June 15, 2005 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish jazz pianist , big band leader and composer. In terms of his importance for the pianistic development of free improvisational music in Europe, he is compared to Fred Van Hove and Misha Mengelberg .

Live and act

At the end of the 1950s he was introduced to jazz music by his father, an officer. He was particularly influenced by Thelonious Monk , Art Tatum and Bud Powell and mixed music from various sources in free improvisation, not just jazz. Wallin has recorded both solo and in a trio and with his own big band (Per Henrik Wallin and his Gang) , starting in 1975 on the Dragon label with his own trio, which he played with the alto saxophonist Lars-Göran Ulander and on arrival in Stockholm in the mid-1970s the drummer Peter Olsen . In 1978 he formed a new trio with Torbjörn Hultcrantz on bass and Erik Dahlbäck on drums, with whom he played for ten years. At that time he toured the rest of Europe with his trio. In the 1980s he also began composing for big bands. In 1988 he suffered a serious car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. It was not until 1995 that he began to play the piano again (without using the pedal and thus dynamically restricted), but made a particularly strong impression with big band recordings. Before his death, he released a solo album.

He also played with drummer Sven-Åke Johansson , Eje Thelin and Jonas Kullhammar (in his big band), who had been friends since childhood .

In 2003 he was awarded the Django d'Or as a Contemporary Star of Jazz . For Tiveden he received the Gyllene Skivan of the Orkesterjournals in 2002 .

Discography (selection)

  • The New Figaro , Dragon 1975 (Trio with Ulander, Olsen)
  • Blues Work , Dragon 1982 (Trio, live)
  • Fourth Balcony Jump , Revelation 1984 (Trio, with Hultcrantz, Erik Dahlbäck)
  • Knalledonia , Dragon 1984
  • Magnetic Dogs 1986, with Sven-Åke Johansson
  • Dolphins, Dolphins, Dolphins , Dragon 1991 (recordings from the 1980s)
  • Deep in a Dream , Dragon 1996 (Solo, recorded in 1985)
  • Coyote , Dragon, 1998 (trio recordings 1986/87)
  • Where Is Spring , Dragon 2004 (Trio with Dahlbäck, Leif Wennerström , recorded 1987)
  • Proclamation I, Farewell to Sweden Hat Hut 2002
  • Tiveden , Phono Suecia 2002 (Bigband plays his compositions, with Bernt Rosengren )
  • One Knife Is Enough , Caprice 2004 (solo, recordings from 1982, 2003)
  • The Stockholm Tapes , Ayler 2004 (with the Ulander, Olsen, mid-1970s)
  • Burning in Stockholm , Atavistic 2004 (with Johnny Dyani , Erik Dahlbäck drums, from 1981)
  • Mandelstam , Moserobie 2004 (big band)
  • Velodromer , Moserobie 2005 (solo)
  • 1974-2004 , Umlaut Records 2011 (with Sven-Åke Johansson )

Web links

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  1. ^ L. Donohue-Greene Per Henrik Wallin: The Stockholm Tapes, Burning in Stockholm, Mandelstam & Velodromer
personal data
SURNAME Wallin, Per Henrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallin, Per-Henrik (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsborg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2005
Place of death Stockholm