Stockholm Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that was established in 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden, originally called the Stockholm Jazz and Blues Festival. A portion of the first festival was broadcast on Swedish television.
9-762: Claiming to be one of the oldest festivals in Sweden, the Stockholm Jazz Festival celebrated its 20th birthday in 2003, refusing to give up its main venue on Skeppsholmen since long having a status as the soul of the festival, the backdrop of the Stockholm harbor regarded as the distinguishing mark of the festival. The festival has hosted Swedish musicians such as Arne Domnérus , Monica Zetterlund , Nils Landgren , Peps Persson , and Lisa Ekdahl , in addition to Pepper Adams , Count Basie , B.B. King , Stan Getz , Dizzy Gillespie , and Miriam Makeba . For
18-447: The 1950s, Hallberg played with leading visiting American players, including the tenor saxophonist Stan Getz , recording "Dear Old Stockholm" (originally "Ack Värmeland du sköna") with him, and alto player Lee Konitz in 1951, and trumpeters Clifford Brown and Quincy Jones in 1953. Jones first recorded arrangement featured Hallberg. In the same period he worked with baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin , another leading Swedish player of
27-544: The Hamburg radio station. He recorded several times with Quincy Jones in Sweden and is featured throughout, "The Midnight Sun Never Sets", composed and arranged by Jones and recorded under Jones' direction by Harry Arnold 's orchestra in 1958. Domnérus' playing in his early career was typical of the cool, sophisticated, technically accomplished and lyrical style of Swedish modern jazz during the 1950s. Domnérus' health declined in his last years, and he retired from playing. He
36-997: The festival of 2007, a national project called Jazzens år 2007 ("Year of Jazz 2007") was started. The festival is housed indoors since 2012 and in 2014 expanded to 10 full days with attendance exceeding 21,000. The festival emphasizes world music and improvisational music. In October 2016 acts from around the world included Kristin Amparo , Peter Asplund , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Tony Buck , Avishai Cohen , Fatoumata Diawara , Itamar Doari , Tia Fuller , Steve Gadd , Abdullah Ibrahim , Magnus Lindgren , Hailu Mergia , Roscoe Mitchell , Omri Moealso, Lina Nyberg , Cecilia Persson , Alfredo Rodriguez , and Archie Shepp . Venues ranged from small clubs to concert halls. Past venues have included Glenn Miller Café, Stockholm Concert Hall , Fasching , Skeppsholmen , Scandic Anglais , Kungsträdgården , Moderna Museet . Arne Domn%C3%A9rus Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008)
45-659: The middle 1960s he was a featured soloist in the Swedish Radio Big Band. He wrote for film and television and recorded with Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg . With Bengt-Arne Wallin , Rolf Ericson , and Åke Persson (the latter two were former members of Duke Ellington 's Orchestra), he participated in the Jazz Workshops organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from
54-494: The time. Both players were associated with the 'Cool Jazz' scene in their country, influenced by the American school around pianist Lennie Tristano , a Hallberg favourite with whom Konitz was associated. Hallberg had a versatile style and in his later years he wrote music for film and television, as well as choral arrangements, and he also played the accordion . With Domnerus and Georg Riedel among others, he participated in
63-563: Was a Swedish jazz pianist, composer and arranger. Born in Gothenburg , he studied classical piano from an early age, and wrote his first jazz arrangement at the age of 13. At the age of 15 he recorded his first record as a member of a group led by bassist Thore Jederby and in 1949 he recorded with the Swedish alto saxophonist Arne Domnérus for the first time, and the two musicians continued to play together for several decades. During
72-484: Was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned professional. In 1949 he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival and with Charlie Parker when Parker was on tour in Sweden in 1950. A few years later he recorded with Clifford Brown , Art Farmer , and James Moody . From the middle 1950s to
81-975: Was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 1994 and the Litteris et Artibus in 2002. With Rune Gustafsson With Bengt Hallberg With Harry Arnold With Alice Babs With Friedrich Gulda With Lars Gullin With Rune Gustafsson With Bengt Hallberg With Jan Johansson With Radiojazzgruppen / Jan Johansson With Georg Riedel With George Russell With Lars Samuelson With Swedish Radio Jazz Group With Bengt-Arne Wallin With Monica Zetterlund With others Bengt Hallberg Bengt Hallberg (13 September 1932 – 2 July 2013)
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