Gustav Ernest Viktor Lundgren (born 18 September 1980 in

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) is a Swedish

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Biography

Lundgren started playing the guitar at the age of thirteen and went to

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's music program during high school. He then studied music at

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folk high school and Fridhems folk high school in

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. After finishing his studies, he joined the Hot Club de Suede and started a jazz club at Hannas Krog at

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in Stockholm. He participates in several music projects, including his own Gustav Lundgren Quartet, and plays a particular Spanish-inspired jazz. He runs his own record company, Lundgren Music.

Honors

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: Honored with his own signature guitar model from AJL-Guitars *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: Recipient of the

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Scholarship *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: Honored with a grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Discography

Solo albums

* 2004: ''First Impression'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet/Quintet *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

: ''Second Opinion'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

: ''8 Venues'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Quartet *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: ''Plays Django Reinhardt'' (Lundgren Music) *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

: ''French Connection'' (Lundgren Music) *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: ''Bertheleville'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren Trio *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

: ''At The Movies'' (Lundgren Music), with Gustav Lundgren & Unit

Collaborations

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

: ''29m²'' (SJR), with Mozaique *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

: ''Avec'' (SJR), with Hot Club de Suede * 2005: ''Django Project vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with Anders Larsson *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: ''Django Project vol. 2'' (Lundgren Music), with Anders Larsson *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: ''Take Two'' (Lundgren Music), with Stockholm Swing All Stars * 2012: ''Janeiro'' (Lundgren Music), with

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* 2012: ''Barcelona / Estocolmo'' (Lundgren Music), with Fredrik Carlquist *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

: ''Plays Richard Rodgers'' (Lundgren Music), with Trio Legacy * 2013: ''Bossa Nova vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with Fredrik Carlquist * 2014: ''Passageiros'' (Lundgren Music), with Lili Araujo * 2014: ''Cruce de Caminos'' (Lundgren Music), with Celia Mur * 2015 : ''Mar'' (Lundgren Music), with Luiz Murá * 2017: ''Jazz Vol. 1'' (Lundgren Music), with

Jorge Rossy Jorge "Jordi" Rossy (born August 21, 1964) is a Spain, spanish jazz drum kit, drummer, piano, pianist and vibraphone, vibraphonist. Early life Rossy was born in Barcelona. His father, Mario, played the piano that was in the family home, as did ...

and Doug Weiss * 2017: ''Acoustic Connection LIVE'' (Lundgren Music), with Antoine Boyer

References

External links

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Lundgren Music website
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