Bo Lennart "Bosse" Broberg (6 September 1937 – 26 August 2023)Uppsalas jazzlegend Bosse Broberg är död
was a Swedish

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trumpeter and composer. Broberg was born

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. He learned to play accordion as a child and switched to trumpet aged 14. He studied music at the

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and performed there in his own small ensemble in a

hard bop Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospe ...

idiom. He worked for many years with Gugge Hedrenius beginning in the early 1960s, and was with

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from 1964 to 1968; he also worked with

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and Jan Johansson. He took leadership of

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's jazz programming in 1966, keeping the position to 1990; he founded the

radiojazzgruppen 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, Ro ...

in 1967 and composed and arranged for the orchestra. He played with

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from 1971 to 1982 and with the Sandviken Big Band from 1975 to 1985. In the 1980s, he worked with Christer Boustedt and

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. He formed a big band in 1995 called Nogenja Jazz Soloist Ensemble. The group's name is a condensation of No Generation Jazz. He won a Django d'Or in 2005.

References

*"Bosse Broberg". '' 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 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Broberg, Bosse 1937 births 2023 deaths Swedish jazz trumpeters Swedish male trumpeters Swedish composers Swedish male composers Swedish male jazz musicians Radiojazzgruppen members People from Ludvika Musicians from Dalarna County