Krister Andersson (born 3 May 1951 in

Eskilstuna, Sweden Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna ha ...

) is a Swedish musician (

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

alt saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

and

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

) and composer.

Career

Anderson started his professional career at the age of 16 as a clarinetist in a military band, and at the same time played saxophone in dance bands. He was originally trained in

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

as a clarinet soloist at

Kungliga Musikhögskolan The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was mad ...

(Royal College of Music) in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. During the early part of the 1970s, he starred as clarinet soloist in the

Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra The Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra was a program of Jeunesses Musicales International. It was founded in 1949 by Igor Markevitch but its permanent structure dates back to 1970, when Gilles Lefebvre consolidated the world's first youth orchest ...

, led by the conductor

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

. Later, he was influenced by

Bernt Rosengren Bernt Rosengren (born 24 December 1937, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. His recordings earned him five Gyllene Skivan awards in Sweden over more than forty years. Biography Rosengren first played professionally at ag ...

, John Coltrane and

Joe Henderson Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent l ...

, and he turned to jazz, and early in his jazz career he participated on two live album releases with the Norwegian guitarist

Thorgeir Stubø Thorgeir Stubø (12 November 1943 – 22 October 1986) was a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer. He was the father of Jazz guitarist Håvard, jazz singer Kjersti and theater director Eirik Stubø, and grandfather of electronica musi ...

. Andersson has twice been awarded the jazz magazine ''Orkesterjournalen''s golden disc for best jazz recording. He has also received numerous awards such as Christer Boustedt's and

Börje Fredriksson Börje Fredriksson (June 30, 1937 – September 21, 1968) was a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. Fredriksson was born in Eskilstuna, Sweden. He played at the beginning of the 1960s in a quartet with Bobo Stenson (piano), Palle Danielsson (bass) an ...

's scholarships, to name a few. Despite his success as clarinetist, it was as saxophonist that he gained attention in the late 1970s, when he was active in Umeå and played tenor saxophone with the Umeå Big Band. In the Stockholm area, he was later in the Gugge Hedrenius Band, Uppsala Chamber Soloists and Frösunda Wind Quintet in 1979 before he became a member of Egil "Bop" Johansen's Jazz Incorporated. Andersson is involved in a large number of jazz projects in the Nordic countries and in Tanglewood, Massachusetts. He leads his Krister Andersson Quartet and often collaborates as guest soloist in other constellations. He is regarded as a brilliant improviser and plays with a modern neo-bop style and is still a sought after classic soloist.

Selected discography

Solo albums

*1986: ''And Friends'' (Dragon Records) *1993: ''About Time'' (Flash Music) *2002: ''Catching the Moment'' (Dragon Records) *2010: ''Live'' (Do Music Records)

As sideman

With Jazz Incorporated *1979: ''

Cornelis Vreeswijk Cornelis Vreeswijk (; ; 8 August 1937 – 12 November 1987) was a Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor. He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve. He was educated as a social worker and hoped to become ...

- Jazz Incorporated'' (Zarepta Records) *1980: ''Live At Fasching'' (Caprice Records) *1982: ''Walkin' On'' (Dragon Records), recorded live With

*1985: '' Flight'' (

Hot Club Records Hot Club Records is a jazz record label established 1982, by guitarist Jon Larsen in Oslo, Norway.Dregni, Michael (2008) ''Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing'', OUP USA, , p. 229 The label has released over 350 ...

), live recordings from 1983 *1986: '' Rhythm'a'ning'' ( Cadence Jazz Records), live in Tromsø With Esko Rosnell Quartet *1988: ''Malecón'' (Kompass Records), featuring Krister Andersson With Bernt Rosengren's Summit Meeting *1993: ''Bent's Jump'' (Dragon Records) – live recording at Bent J With The Ulf Sandberg Quartet *1993: ''Ulf Sandberg Quartet'' (Acid Jazz) With Bosse Broberg *1995: ''Regni'' (Phono Suecia) *2002: ''Conspiracy in Flat Five'' (Phono Suecia) With Georg Riedel *2008: ''Wolfgang on My Mind'' (Phono Suecia) With DUOJ (Cecilia Jonshult - vocals and Lars Jonshult - bass) :2010: ''Betraktelser'' (Gason Jazz)

References

External links

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