Nils Lindberg

A fine pianist and arranger/composer, Nils Lindberg worked with a who's who of Swedish jazz. He studied music at Uppsala University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, graduating in 1960. He gigged with Benny Bailey (1957-1958), Ove Lind, Putte Wickman, and others while still a student. Two of Lindberg's finest LPs, Sax Appeal and Trisection, were reissued as a single Dragon CD in 1992 and feature Lars Gullin, Jan Allan, Idrees Sulieman, and Eje Thelin. He also wrote arrangements for Alice Babs and recorded with Karin Krog (1976). Nils Lindberg was expert at combining Swed...