Börje Fredriksson

Börje Fredriksson (* June 30, 1937 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, † September 21, 1968 ) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist (tenor ) and composer who in his short career in the 1960s major influence on the development of modern jazz in Sweden exercised.

Fredriksson played in the early 1960s in his own quartet with Bobo Stenson (piano), Palle Danielsson (bass) and Fredrik Norén (drums ) as well as in the bands of Eje Thelin and Bernt Rosengren. He played with guitarist Rune Gustafsson ( Young Guitar, Metronome, 1961) and after its opening in 1962 much in the Jazz Club Golden Circle in Stockholm, for example, with Bosse Broberg and with his quartet. The pragmatic Broberg remembers that time of the uncompromising way in which Fredriksson to new currents of jazz turned to have been impressed (especially John Coltrane ). Fredriksson founded his own band, with whom he recorded in 1966 on Columbia interval, which also received the same Gyllene Skivan of Orkesterjournals and earned him a government scholarship. His promising development was the age of 31 ended by his death.

His compositions have been recorded in 1993 by Fredrik Norén band (Sister Maj Blouse, with Stenson, Danielsson, Norén and saxophonist Joakim Milder ), which for the same year won the Swedish Grammy. The Jazz Club of Eskilstuna awards a scholarship in his name ( Börje Fredriksson Minne Fund).

In addition to tenor saxophone, he also played harmonica and French horn.