Jazz at Skansen 2024
About the performers
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Kristin Amparo
Kristin Amparo has performed on Sweden's largest stages and toured around the globe. She has been compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Amy Winehouse in one person, and she freely glides across genres. She is also a songwriter, with songs like "Din soldat" and "Dance Our Tears Away" reaching the top of the Swedish and international charts. Kristin Amparo is now one of Sweden's most well-known jazz musicians and has received the Alice Babs scholarship, among other accomplishments.
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Lelo Nika jr.
Lelo Nika Jr. is an eighth-generation musician from a long-standing musical family with Serbian roots. He freely alternates between jazz, roman folklore and global music. Lelo has received numerous awards for his music, including the Malmö City cultural scholarship Hagström and the Royal Academy of Music's grand accordion prize. Despite his young age, he has performed in several concerts throughout Europe, including solo performances at the Stockholm Folk Opera and with the Prague Philharmonic at the Rudolfinum in the Czech Republic.
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Sinne Eeg
Sinne Eeg, a Danish jazz vocalist, has established herself as an international jazz star. After graduating from Vestjyska Music Conservatory in Esbjerg in 2003, she relocated to Copenhagen, where her career thrived. She gained popularity throughout Europe and Asia with her album Waiting for Dawn, which was selected as Danish Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in 2007. Sinne is now a popular songwriter in addition to touring around the globe as a performer. She has received many awards and accolades for her works.
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Georg Wadenius
Georg "Jojje" Wadenius has been playing guitar and composing since 1968. He gained popularity with the group Made in Sweden and as a composer of children's music. In the 1970s, he performed with Blood, Sweat, and Tears and became one of the most in-demand studio musicians in Sweden, the United States and Norway. In New York, he performed with Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin and the Backstreet Boys. Today, based in Oslo, he continues to work as a performer and composer, collaborating with different bands and singers.
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Sharon Dyall
Sharon Dyall is one of Sweden's most varied performers, working in soul, blues, jazz and musicals. She started her music career with the band Little Mike & The Sweet Soul Music Band. Sharon received the Golden Mask for her work as Anita in West Side Story at Chinateatern in Stockholm. She has performed as a singer in a variety of jazz ensembles and settings. In addition, she works as an actress, director and translator.
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Peter Asplund
Peter Asplund made his jazz debut in the 1990s and is now regarded as one of the best trumpet players of his generation. He has published eight CDs under his own name and got the Golden Disc Award for two of them. Peter is the leader of the Blue House Jazz Orchestra, Stockholm Concert Hall's own big band, alongside saxophonist Magnus Lindgren. He also performs as a jazz singer.
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Rigmor Gustafsson
Rigmor Gustafsson has an extensive and award-winning career list. She is now one of Sweden's and Europe's most well-known and successful jazz performers. Rigmor has twelve records under her own name and has been awarded the Royal Academy's Jazz Prize, Sveriges Radio's Golden Cat Prize and His Majesty the King's Litteris et Artibus medal. She also got a Grammy for her album Alone With You. Rigmor has played in a variety of ensembles, including duos, symphony orchestras and television projects. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Filip Jers
Harmonica player Filip Jers has been called "The Swedish Harmonica Sensation" by music critics in Europe. He plays all kinds of harmonica, alternates easily between different genres and writes the music himself for the groups he participates in, for example the international world music band Stockholm Lisboa Project, the jazz quartet Filip Jers Kvartett and the jazz/folk trio Primus Motor. Filip won the harmonica world championship twice at the age of 18 in Trossingen, Germany. Since then, he has toured throughout Europe, Asia, America, and Africa.
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Klas Lindquist
Klas Lindquist plays alto saxophone and clarinet, and is also active as a composer. He has been awarded a number of different prizes and was an early member of the jazz band Second Line Jazzband and the Bohuslän Big Band, one of Sweden's few professional big bands. Klas has since led his own groups. Groups such as Stockholm Swing All Stars, Stockholm Voices, Champion Fulton Scandinavian Quartet and musicians such as Ulf Johansson Werre, Mathias Algotsson, Karl Olandersson and Jan Lundgren perform with Klas Lindquist.
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Jan Lundgren
Jan began taking piano lessons when he was five years old and instantly demonstrated his skills. It didn't take that long before he was performing among Swedish and American jazz legends. Jan, the pianist and composer, was a pioneer in separating European and American jazz. He has published around 50 CDs and has participated in projects with famous musicians around the world. Jan Lundgren is also the artistic director of the Ystad Jazz Festival and the well-known jazz venue Montmartre in Copenhagen.
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Claes Crona
Claes Crona is a legendary jazz pianist, known from a large number of recordings with various musicians. During the 1960s he had his own trio with Jan Allan and Lars Gullin based at Nalen in Stockholm. He toured with Petula Clark in the 1960s, collaborated with Putte Wickman beginning in the 1907s and toured with Benny Goodman around 1980. Claes collaborated with several well-known musicians in the 2010s, including Louise Hoffsten, Lill Lindfors, Viktoria Tolstoy, Svante Thuresson, Vivian Buczek and Peter Asplund.