David Wilczewski (June 9, 1952, Boston - August 22, 2009, Stockholm) was an American jazz saxophonist. Wilczewski took up clarinet as a child before switching to saxophone as a teenager. He attended

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

from 1968 to 1970 and then the New England Conservatory of Music from 1970 to 1975, and toured and recorded with musicians such as Al Kooper,

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...

, Tavares, and

Marvin Gaye Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., who also spelled his surname as Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo ar ...

. He moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and split his time between there and Boston, playing with Mike Stern, Tim Landers, Dean Brown, and Steve Smith, who together would form the group Vital Information in 1981. He relocated to Stockholm in 1982, playing there with Don Cherry, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bobo Stenson,

Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he help ...

, Nils Landgren, Peter Erskine, the

Swedish Radio Jazz Group Radiojazzgruppen (The Radio Jazz Group) was a Swedish band led by Arne Domnérus (1967–78) and Lennart Åberg (early 1980s). Several prominent Swedish musicians have been members of the group, such as Ulf Andersson, Jan Allan, Bosse Broberg, Rolf ...

, Lars Danielsson, Alex Acuña,

Eje Thelin Eje Thelin (born Eilert Ove Thelin) (June 9, 1938 – May 18, 1990) was a Swedish trombonist. Thelin led his own quintet in 1961. From 1968 to 1972, he was on the faculty of the Music Academy in Graz, Austria. For the rest of the 1970s, he led hi ...

, Anders Jormin,

Bosse Broberg Bosse Broberg (born September 6, 1937, Ludvika) is a Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer. Broberg learned to play accordion as a child and switched to trumpet aged 14. He studied music at the University of Uppsala and performed there in his own sma ...

Goran Klinghagen Goran may refer to: Ethnic groups *Gorane, or Goran, an ethnic group of northern Africa *Goran (Kurdish tribe), an ethnic group of the Middle East *Gorani (ethnic group), an ethnic group of the southeastern Europe Other uses *Göran, a Swedis ...

, Steve Dobrogosz, and

Rolf Jardemark Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. A ...

References

*Mark Gilbert, "David Wilczewski". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U ...

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