Simon Brehm
Simon Brehm (born December 31, 1921 , † February 11, 1967 ) was a Swedish big band leader, bassist and composer of swing .
Life
Brehm learned the piano and clarinet and from 1938 played guitar (which he taught himself in hospital while suffering from scarlet fever) in an amateur band Fair Play with Gösta and Hasse Theselius. He then played bass in various bands, such as that of the Hotel Embassy, the Royal Swingers in Uppsala , the Stockholm bands of Charlie Norman , Carl-Henrik Norin and Arne Hülphers , before he founded his own band in 1946, in which at times a. a. Arne Domnérus , the singer he discovered, Lill-Babs (whose manager he later also became), Stan Hasselgard , Rolf Billberg , Mikkel Flagstad and the clarinetist Ove Lind played. With the band he accompanied international guest musicians on their tours such as Hot Lips Page , Teddy Wilson , Sonny Clark , Annie Ross and Tyree Glenn . In 1949 he was a guest at the Festival International 1949 de Jazz in Paris; In 1950 he recorded with Don Gais . In the 1950s he also founded his own record company Karusell and accompanied jazz musicians like Stan Getz in Sweden; he also played with Lars Gullin and Rolf Ericson . He was also the leader of a band on an early television talk show ( Hylands Hörna ) in the 1960s and has been composing film scores since the 1940s.
Lexical entry
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
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| SURNAME | Brehm, Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish jazz bassist and big band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1967 |