Simon Brehm

Simon Brehm (* December 31, 1921, † February 11, 1967 ) was a Swedish big band leader, bass player and composer of Swing.

Brehm studied piano and clarinet and played guitar from 1938 (which he did during a scarlet fever in the hospital taught ) in an amateur band Fairplay with Gösta and Hasse Theselius. He then played bass in various bands, such as the one before it in 1946 founded his own band in the hotel Embassy, the Royal Swingers in Uppsala, Stockholm bands of Charlie Norman, Carl -Henrik Norin and Arne Hülphers, in the times and Others Arne Domnérus that he discovered singer Lill- Babs (whose manager, he was also later ), Stan Hasselgard, Rolf Bill Berg, Mikkel Flagstad and the clarinetist Ove Lind played. With the band, he accompanied international guest musicians on tour as Hot Lips Page, Teddy Wilson, Sonny Clark, Annie Ross and Tyree Glenn. In 1949 he was at the Festival International de Jazz in 1949 in Paris as a guest; In 1950 he took up with Don Gais. In the 1950s, he also founded his own record company carousel and accompanied jazz musicians such as Stan Getz in Sweden; He also played with Lars and Rolf Ericson Gullin. He was also the leader of a band in an early TV talk show ( Hylands hörna ) in the 1960s and composed since the 1940s film scores.

Lexical entry

• Jazz bassist
• Big Band Leader
• Swedish Musician
• Born 1921
• Died in 1967
• Man