Per Henrik Wallin

Per Henrik Wallin ( born July 17, 1946 in Karl Borg; † 15 June 2005 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish jazz pianist, big band leader and composer. From its importance for her pianistic development of free improvised music in Europe it is compared with Fred Van Hove and Misha Mengelberg.

Life and work

In the late 1950s he was introduced by his father, an officer, to the jazz music. He was particularly influenced by Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum and Bud Powell and mixed in free improvisation music from a variety of sources, not just jazz. Wallin has both solo, as well as a trio and with his own big band ( Per Henrik Wallin and his gear) was added, beginning in 1975 with the label Dragon with own trio which he and upon arrival in Stockholm mid-1970s with the alto saxophonist Lars- Göran Ulander drummer Peter Olsen was formed. In 1978 he formed a new trio with Torbjörn Hultcrantz on bass and Erik Dahlbäck on drums, with whom he played for ten years. With his trio, he toured back then in the rest of Europe. In the 1980s, he began composing for big bands. In 1988, he suffered a serious car accident which left him paralyzed hüftabwärts. Only in 1995 he began to play the piano (without using the pedal and thus dynamically limited), but became particularly prominent with big band recordings. Before his death, he released another solo album.

He also played with the ( since childhood ) friend, drummer Sven -Åke Johansson, Eje Thelin and Jonas Kullhammar (in his big band).

In 2003 he was awarded the Django d'Or Award as Contemporary Star of Jazz. For Tivedens he received the Gyllene Skivan of Orkesterjournals 2002.

Discography (selection)

  • The New Figaro, Dragon 1975 ( trio with Ulander, Olsen )
  • Work Blues, Dragon 1982 ( Trio live )
  • Fourth Balcony Jump, Revelation 1984 ( Trio, with Hultcrantz, Erik Dahlbäck )
  • Knalledonia, Dragon 1984
  • Magnetic dogs, 1986, with Sven -Åke Johansson
  • Dolphins, Dolphins, Dolphins, Dragon 1991 ( recordings of the 1980s)
  • Deep in a Dream, Dragon 1996 ( solo, in 1985 recorded)
  • Coyote, Dragon, 1998 ( Trio Recordings 1986/87 )
  • Where Is Spring, Dragon 2004 ( trio with Dahlbäck, Leif Wennerstrom, 1987 included )
  • Proclamation I, Farewell to Sweden Hat Hut 2002
  • Tivedens, Phono Suecia 2002 ( big band playing his compositions, with Bernt Rosengren )
  • One Knife Is Enough, Caprice 2004 ( solo recordings from 1982, 2003)
  • The Stockholm Tapes, Ayler 2004 ( with the Ulander, Olsen, mid-1970s )
  • Burning in Stockholm, Atavistic 2004 ( with Johnny Dyani, Erik Dahlback drums, 1981 )
  • Mandelstam, Moserobie 2004 ( big band)
  • Velodromer, Moserobie 2005 ( solo)
  • 1974-2004, Umlaut Records 2011 ( with Sven -Åke Johansson )
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