Magnus Lindgren

Magnus Lindgren ( born 1974 in Västerås) is a Swedish jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger.

Life and work

Lindgren began at age 13 to learn saxophone and attended music school in his hometown and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. In 1992 he toured with the Peter Johannesson Quintet and Herbie Hancock. 1999, his debut album Way Out was nominated for a Swedish Grammy. The Grammy he won in 2001 for the big band album Paradise Open ( with the Swedish Radio Jazz Group ), which also received the Gyllene Skivan of Orkesterjounals. He tours extensively in Europe with its existing since 1997 quartet ( with pianist Mathias Algotsson, bassist Fredrik Jonsson and drummer Jonas Holgersson ), with whom he also played at the Montreux Jazz Festival (partly as a companion for the opera singer Barbara Hendricks ). In 2003, his album The game. He also played with Jonas Kullhammar, James Ingram, Jim McNeely, Jojje Wadenius, Koop, Nils Landgren 's Funk Unit, Bob Mintzer, Steve Slagle, Blacknuss and Lisa Ekdahl. In addition, he also worked as a composer, for example, the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 2003, in collaboration with symphony orchestras such as the Malmö Opera Orchestra ( Music for Neighbours, listed in 2004 in Stockholm). With Lina Nyberg he played a big band, the album Brasil Big Bom (2007).

In addition to saxophone, he also plays other woodwind instruments (flute, clarinet, bass clarinet).

Prizes and awards

He was elected in Sweden for best jazz musician of the year 2001. In 2006 he received the Django d' Or ( Sweden) as Contemporary Star of Jazz.