Rune Carlsson (musician)

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Rune Carlsson (* 4. December 1940 in Stockholm ; † 9. March 2013 ) was a Swedish drummer of modern jazz who has played with most Swedish jazz musicians of his generation as well as in recent years singer has emerged.

Live and act

Carlsson started out with Dixieland and then played in the Sven Douglas Quintet when he was sixteen. Later he was part of Gunnar Almstedt's orchestra . In 1961 he was briefly a member of the Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble ; In 1962 he recorded with Attila Zoller . From 1963 he was the drummer of the legendary Stockholm jazz club Gyllene Cirkeln . Numerous American jazz musicians accompanied him there, such as Bill Evans , Dizzy Gillespie , Dexter Gordon , Stan Getz , Ben Webster , Coleman Hawkins , Eric Dolphy and Chet Baker . In 1964 he also appeared in Germany in the quintet of Eje Thelin .

Carlsson then belonged to the groups of Arne Domnérus , Bengt Hallberg , Kjell Jansson, Åke Johansson , Red Mitchell , Lars Sjösten , Bobo Stenson and Björn Alke . He also played with Monica Zetterlund , Lasse Färnlöf, Alice Babs , Lars Gullin , Bob Wilber , Merit Hemmingson and on some important recordings of Krzysztof Komeda between 1965 and 1967. He was also a member of Bo Hansson's band in the early 1970s . He is also on recordings by Phineas Newborn ( Stockholm Jazz Session , 1958), Budd Johnson (1978), Nils Lindberg ( Saxes Galore , 1979), Joakim Milder ( Still in Motion , 1989) and Gunnar Bergsten ( The Good Life , 1995) to listen. In 2005 he presented an album as a singer.

Publications

Discographic notes

  • Birka: Jazz I Sverige "78 (with Nisse Sandström , Bronisław Suchanek , Anders Karle)
  • Witchcraft (1998)
  • Sings a Swedish Jazz Song Book (2005, with Göran Lindberg, Åke Johansson, Mathias Algotsson, Erik Söderlind, Hampus Lundgren, Jon Person, Bernt Rosengren , Bertil Lövgren; Dragon Records )
  • Seven Footprints to Heaven (2008)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in Sydsvenskan (Swedish)
  2. ↑ a b c See Richard Cook & Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6 , as well as 2nd and 8th edition, also Bielefeld catalog Jazz 1985 and 1988
  3. ↑ With him he also appeared in Uppsala ; the private recording of the concert was released on record in 1992. According to the Dolphy experts Simosko & Tepperman, the rhythm section was hardly familiar with the repertoire. See Vladimir Simosko & Barry Tepperman Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography , Da Capo Press, 1996, p. 114
  4. ↑ This applies to the recordings for the feature films Hvad Med Os , Kattorna and Sult by Henning Carlsen as well as the album Astigmatic , his Etiudy Baletowe and the poetry & jazz production Meine süße Europäische Heimat .
  5. ↑ He was involved in the recording of his successful prog rock albums Lord of the Rings (1970), Magician's Hat (1972) and Attic Thoughts (1975).
personal data
SURNAME Carlsson, rune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2013