Nalen
Back in the 60-ties I had my own group at the famous jazzhouse NALEN in Stockholm with Lars Gullin and Jan Allan among others. Topsy, Nalen´s owner sent me sometimes out to travel around Sweden with Åke Persson, Benny Bailey and Sahib Shiab- driving 1500 miles during a single weekend.
Lee Konitz - Roy Eldridge -Gus Johnson - Red Mitchell - Anita O´Day in USA
In the middle of the 70-ties I was often doing jamsessions at different jazzclubs in New York . I was playing with some of the worlds greatest jazzmusicians at Half Note, Bradleys, Blue Note etc.
My american friends visiting Sweden
During the 70-80-90-ties many of my colleagues from USA came to Sweden,Together with them I did concerts, tours, recordings and TV: Harry "Sweets" Edison, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davies,Toots Thielemans,Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Pepper Adams, Stan Getz, Mel Lewis, Thad Jones, Flip Phillips, Red Mitchell, Scott Hamilton etc.
Claes Crona and Putte Wickman
In 1977 I started to play with Putte. We made many albums together, quartets and duo. Many radio- and TV -shows. Latest album "Interchange" was released 1997. Putte is the musician who has inspired me the most in my playing. Putte belongs to the worlds grearest clarinet players all the time developing.
"Grammy" 1984 best jazzalbum in Sweden
The duo album was called " Double Play" and gave us lots of publicity.The ceremony was a live show for the Swedish TV and took place in Berwaldhallen in Stockholm.
Three duo LP albums in the 80s
During three yrears, 1984-85-86 I made three DUO albums with Harry "Sweets" Edison, (Meeting In Stockholm) Gunnar "Silja-Bloo" Nilsson (Something Special) and Niels-Henning Örsted-Pedersen, "With A Little Help From My Friend".
European tour with Benny Goodman
In the 80s I did "the tour of my life". With Benny Goodman, Svend Asmussen, Mads Winding, Bjarne Rostvold and Philipe Cathrine. The tour started in Copenhagen and then Berlin, Hamburg and all Germany and finished in Vienna. We did several radio and TV- shows.As a curiosity I taught Benny Goodman how to play bridge(for two people) in the airplane.
Big Band leader in Spain
During my period in Spain I did concerts with my big band 1996-97. Though I played most the time with my trio. Artists like Arne Domnerus, Alice Babs, Scott Hamilton and many others performed with my trio.
Scott Hamilton
I have played with Scott since 1979 in Sweden and abroad and we have been touring Sweden almost every year. The album "Live at Jazzclub Fasching" was released 1998 with Scott my trio and others.
Eddie Daniels - Buddy DeFranco - Rolf Kuhn
In november 1998 I toured Germany with these fantastic clarinet players "Clarinet Connection". We also did a radio show in Frankfurt with Frankfurt Big Band. A CD is to be released 2000 from the same session.
Putte Wickman - Buddy DeFranco
From the German tour I got the idea to bring Buddy to Sweden and play with Putte and my trio including Hans Backenroth on bass and Petur "Island" Östlund .drums. Two very successful tours 1998-1999.
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