Fred Lange-Nielsen (28 September 1919 – 28 December 1989) was a Norwegian doctor and jazz musician (bass, vocals), known in the early

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environments, and from several recordings. Lange-Nielsen and

Anton Jervell Anton Jervell (14 June 1901 – 29 December 1987) was a Norwegian physician, politician and organizational leader. He was born in Oslo, Kristiania, a son of tax man Jakob Anton Jervell and Marie Andrea Simers. He graduated as cand.med. in 1925, ...

were the first to describe

Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a rare type of long QT syndrome associated with severe, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Those with JLNS are at risk of abnormal heart rhythms called arrhythmias, which can lead to fainting, seiz ...

(JLNS) in 1953.Jervell A, Lange-Nielsen F. Congenital deaf-mutism, functional heart disease with prolongation of the QT interval and sudden death. American Heart Journal, 1957; 54: 59 - 68. He played in String Swing (1937-1941), the quartet Hot Dogs, in

Rowland Greenberg Rowland Charles Wentworth Greenberg (28 August 1920 in Oslo – 2 April 1994) was a Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet), seen by many as one of the foremost names in Norwegian jazz in the 1940s and 1950s. Career With a style inspired by the Engl ...

's orchestra (1941), the Oslo Swing Club's orchestra, the studio group Seven Cheerful and with Cecil Aagaard's "Swingsters" and quintet Sew-We-La (1950 53).

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