Georg Riedel (Jazz musician)
Georg Riedel ( born January 8, 1934 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia) is a Swedish jazz bassist and film composer.
Life and work
Riedel was born as the Sudeten Germans and reached the age of four with his parents to Sweden. In Stockholm, he studied classical cello, but then switched to double bass and jazz. He often played with the Swedish jazz musicians Jan Johansson (on the Jazz på svenska, 1963, based on folk melodies ). He also appeared with Arne Domnérus, Lars Gullin, Gunnar Svensson, Egil Johansen, Rune Gustafsson, trumpeter January Allan and the Swedish Radio Big Band of Harry Arnold. In 1976, he led the Swedish Radio Jazz Group for a production with Terje Rypdal ( Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert ).
Since the 1960s, Riedel also wrote film scores, including for television films by Astrid Lindgren, with whom he worked until the 1980s, first for Pippi Longstocking 1969 ( collaboration with his friend Johansson, who died in 1968, however ), but also for The Children of Noisy Village and Emil of Maple Hills.
In 2006 he received the Django d' Or ( Sweden) Master of Jazz.
His daughter Sarah was born in 1982 is active as a jazz and pop singer. You already played with her father albums one, for example, Cornelius vs. Riedel (2011 ), on which, together with Nicolai Dunger lyrics by Cornelius Vreeswijk were sung in settings of Georg Riedel.