Börje Fredriksson (June 30, 1937 – September 21, 1968) was a

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tenor saxophonist. Fredriksson was born in

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, Sweden. He played at the beginning of the 1960s in a quartet with

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(piano),

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(bass) and Fredrik Norén (drums), as well as in groups with

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and Bernt Rosengren. He played with the guitarist

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in 1961 and with Bosse Broberg's quartet in 1962 at the Golden Circle Jazz Club in

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. He recorded ''Intervall'', (Columbia 1966), together with the posthumous, self-titled ''Börje Fredriksson'', (EMI/Odeon, 1969). In 1968, he took his own life. Fredriksson's sheet music was left in the hands of Bobo Stenson, and in 1994 he, Danielsson and Norén with saxophonist Joakim Milder, recorded an album of Fredriksson's music entitled ''Sister Maj's Blouse''. A sequel, ''Epilogue'', appeared in 1998 with the same ensemble.

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