Dan Berglund (born 5 May 1963) is a Swedish musician who mainly plays the

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

and is known within

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and fusion.

Biography

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Berglund was familiar with Swedish

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as well as with pop and rock music. At the age of ten he started playing rock guitar, but later changed to

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

. As part of his musical training at the ''Birka Folkhögskola'' in

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he came to pick up the upright bass and played in the regional symphony orchestra, with whom he also had guest performances and first television appearances. In 1990 he moved to

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to study at the

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. There he played in the group '' Jazz Furniture '' and in the quintet of

Lina Nyberg Lina Nyberg (born 27 February 1970) is a Swedish jazz singer and composer. She has composed works for string quartet, big band, and symphony orchestra. She is married to the Swedish jazz clarinettist and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist. Career ...

, where he met Esbjörn Svensson. From 1993 he was a member of the highly successful

Esbjörn Svensson Trio Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or e.s.t.) was a Swedish jazz piano trio formed in 1993 consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass), and Magnus Öström (drums). Its music had classical, rock, pop, and techno elements. It listed c ...

, with whom he recorded numerous albums and toured worldwide. He was a member of the trio until the death of Svensson in 2008. In 2009 he founded his own

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band Tonbruket, which includes Johan Lindström (guitar, keyboards), Martin Hederos (piano, accordion, violin, keyboards) and

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(drums, percussion), who do not come from the jazz scene. The band's 2009 debut album was awarded a Swedish Grammy.

Selected discography

Solo

;With Tonbruket *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: ''Dan Berglund's Tonbruket'' ( ACT Music) *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: ''Dig It to the End'' (ACT Music) (awarded

Gyllene Skivan Gyllene Skivan (Golden Disc) is an annual jazz award given by ''Orkesterjournalen'' (OJ), the oldest jazz magazine in Sweden which was established in 1933. OJ established the ''Gyllene Skivan'' award in 1954. The Swedish tenor saxophonist, Bernt ...

2011) *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

: ''Nubium Swimtrip'' (ACT Music) *

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

: ''Forevergreens'' (ACT Music) *

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: ''Live Salvation'' (ACT Music) (Recorded live in Stuttgart, November 17, 2016) *

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: ''Masters of Fog'' (ACT Music)

Collaborations

;With Esbjörn Svensson Trio See Esbjörn Svensson Trio#Discography ;With Jeanette Lindström Quintet *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

: ''Another Country'' (Caprice Records) *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: ''I Saw You'' (Caprice Records) ;With Fire! Orchestra *

: ''Exit!'' ( Rune Grammofon) *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: ''Enter'' (Rune Grammofon) *

: ''Second Exit'' (Rune Grammofon) ;With others *

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

: ''City Sounds'' (Mirrors Records), with Fredrik Norén Band *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

: ''Jazz Furniture'' (Caprice Records), with Jazz Furniture *

: ''When The Smile Shines Through'' (Prophone), with

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

: ''Alla Mina Kompisar'' (

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), with Per "Texas" Johansson *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: ''Melos'' (Sittel Records), with

Peter Asplund Peter Asplund (born 26 September 1969) is a jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer. Asplund studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has recorded several solo albums and participated as solo artist on records with other artists, such a ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: ''Love Is Real'' (ACT Music), with

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as composer *

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

: ''Bitter and Sweet'' (Emoción Records), with

Jessica Pilnäs Jessica Georganne Pilnäs, (born 5 July 1978 in Åryd, Växjö ), is a Swedish singer perhaps mostly known for her song "Jag ger dig allt" ( en, I give you all). She sang the song in Melodifestivalen 1995, and came in third place. In 2000, Her so ...

: ''Cause And Effect'' (Prophone), with Peter Johannesson, Schultz, Berglund feat.

Jacob Karlzon Jacob Karlzon (born 19 October 1970 in Jönköping, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, pianist, composer and accompanist. He has often performed with singer Viktoria Tolstoy Louise Viktoria Tolstoy (born 29 July 1974) is a Swedish jazz singer o ...

: ''Trialogue'' (

Jazzland Recordings Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and improvised music label based in Oslo, Norway, often associated with nu jazz. It was founded in 1996 by pianist Bugge Wesseltoft to release his "New Conception of Jazz" and operate as a standalone label. ...

), with

Bugge Wesseltoft Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, and producer, son of jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft. Career In 1989, Wesseltoft collaborated with the Knut Riisnæs Quartet and was soon after ...

, Henrik Schwarz *

: ''Reflections & Odysseys'' (Jazzland Recordings), with Bugge Wesseltoft and

Magnus Öström Magnus Öström (born 3 May 1965) is a Swedish drummer, and known for being part of the first Esbjörn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.). Biography Öström was the son of an artist couple, and was influenced by the musical tastes of his older brother ...

( Rymden) *

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: ''Doom Country'' (Startracks), with

Christian Kjellvander Christian Kjellvander (born May 13, 1976) is a Swedish singer-songwriter.
, Music Eldorado, February 27, 2007

( Tonbruket)

References

External links

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Biography (ACT)

Meeting ''Dan Berglund's Tonbruket''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berglund, Dan 1963 births Living people Swedish jazz composers Male jazz composers Swedish jazz double-bassists ACT Music artists People from Jämtland 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century Swedish male musicians Esbjörn Svensson Trio members