Tomas Bengt Erik Franck (born October 14, 1958 in

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) is a Swedish

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tenor saxophonist. Franck was raised in the town of

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, where he took up clarinet as a youth, switching to tenor sax in his teens. He studied at the Musik-högskolan in

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in the early 1980s, where he formed a group called Equinox and performed with

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; starting in 1982, he began playing with

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, an association that would last until 1986. In the 1990s he worked with the

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and was the recipient of the

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in 1991. Franck has performed and recorded extensively as a sideman with, among others,

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, and

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References

*Frank Büchmann-Møller, '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, 2001, ed.

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