Bosse Broberg (born September 6, 1937,

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) is a Swedish

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trumpeter and composer. Broberg learned to play accordion as a child and switched to trumpet aged 14. He studied music at the

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and performed there in his own small ensemble in a

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idiom. He worked for many years with

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beginning in the early 1960s, and was with

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from 1964 to 1968; he also worked with

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and Jan Johansson. He took leadership of

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's jazz programming in 1966, keeping the position to 1990; he founded the

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in 1967 and composed and arranged for the orchestra. He played with

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from 1971 to 1982 and with the

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from 1975 to 1985. In the 1980s, he worked with

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and

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. He formed a big band in 1995 called Nogenja Jazz Soloist Ensemble. The group's name is a condensation of No Generation Jazz. He won a

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in 2005.

References

*"Bosse Broberg". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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