Simon Brehm (31 December 1921 – 11 February 1967) was a
Swedish double-bass
The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). It has ...
player and, later in life, a
record producer
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and owner of Karusell Records.
He was the manager of the singer
Lill-Babs
Barbro Margareta Svensson (9 March 1938 – 3 April 2018), known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best-known and popular singers ...
and was the leader of the orchestra that played in the
TV show
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Hylands hörna
''Hylands hörna'' ("Hyland's corner") was a Swedish talk show presented by Lennart Hyland. Broadcast between 1962 and 1983, it was the first talk show in Sweden.
The show started as a radio program on 10 October 1961. It moved to television in ...
'' from 1962.
Discography
With
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received List of awards and nominations re ...
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Jazz Abroad'' (Emarcy, 1955)
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Quincy's Home Again'' (Metronome, 1958) - also released as ''Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz!'' (EmArcy)
References
Bebop double-bassists
Swedish jazz double-bassists
Swedish record producers
Swedish people of Jewish descent
1921 births
1967 deaths
20th-century double-bassists
20th-century Swedish male musicians
20th-century Swedish musicians
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