Ã…ke Persson

Åke Persson (* February 25, 1932 in Hässleholm, † February 5, 1975 in Stockholm) was a Swedish jazz trombonist of Bop, who was one in the 1950s and 1960s, Europe's leading trombonists of the jazz.

Life and work

Persson came in 1951 from Southern Sweden to Stockholm and made equal ( 1951-1954 ) talked about, where he nicknamed " Comet " was because of his skills through his game in the quintet by Simon Brehm. He then played in the bands of Arne Domnérus and tenor saxophonist Hacke Bjorksten. From 1956 to 1961 was a soloist band in Harry Arnold's Swedish Radio, where he was Quincy Jones heard and committed to its European big band. From 1961 to 1975 he played in the RIAS Dance Orchestra in Berlin and next to it from 1963 to 1971 in the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band. In 1972, he starred in The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band. In addition, he often played with visiting American musicians to tour Europe, so with the Count Basie Orchestra (1962), Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Haynes. February 1975 he was found dead in his car in the Djurgården canal.

In the 1950s he took under his own name at Metronome, Philips and EmArcy. He is also on albums by Count Basie, Nils Lindberg, Herbie Mann, George Wallington, Monica Zetterlund, Lars Gullin, Stan Getz, Art Farmer and Peter Herbolzheimer involved.

He was posthumously awarded the Django d' Or ( Sweden) awarded the legend of jazz in 2005.

Disco Graphical Notes

• The Great Åke Persson ( Four Leaf Clover )

Lexigraphic entries

• Carlo Bohländer (ed.), Loeb Classical Jazz guide. Stuttgart 1970