Nils-Bertil Dahlander, nicknamed Bert Dahlander but also known as Bert Dale, was a Swedish Jazz percussionist. Self-taught in violin and piano, he attended
Juilliard
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and began his career playing on
Thore Ehrling's radio band. He started visiting the US in 1954, first playing at The Beehive house band in Chicago, and working with
Terry Gibbs
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He has performed or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson,Theroux, Gary"Gibbs, Terry".''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. R ...
for a year. He then played with
Lars Gullin
Lars Gunnar Victor Gullin (4 May 1928 – 17 May 1976) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist.
Career
Lars Gullin was born in Visby, Sweden. He was a child prodigy on the accordion. At age thirteen, he played clarinet in a military band and later l ...
, before returning to the US in 1957 to rejoin Gibbs.
He performed as a member of
Teddy Wilson
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's group, along with
Gene Ramey
Gene Ramey (April 4, 1913 – December 8, 1984) was an American jazz double bassist.
Ramey was born in Austin, Texas, United States, and played trumpet in college, but switched to contrabass when playing with George Corley's Royal Aces, The Mo ...
and
Al Lucas; they recorded several
Columbia LPs, and was originally nicknamed Bert by Wilson.
He also worked with
Ben Webster
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in Sweden.
He was
Cannonball Adderley
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Adderley is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the 1966 soul ...
's drummer for a time and toured across Europe with
Chet Baker
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Baker earned much attention and ...
during 1955–56 (recording with Baker as well). He recorded the album ''Skål'' (Bert Dahlander and His Swedish Jazz) on
Verve Records
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.
After his touring retirement in 1964, he played for many years in the house band at the Tippler at the base of
Aspen Mountain.
References
Further reading
*Carlo Bohländer, Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universalbibliothek. Nr. 10185). 2., revidierte und erweiterte Auflage. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, .
External links
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1928 births
2011 deaths
Jazz drummers
Swedish jazz musicians
Juilliard School alumni
Swedish expatriates in the United States
Musicians from Gothenburg