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Bertil "Jonas" Jonasson: Jonas Plays Gullin

Read "Jonas Plays Gullin" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Long after his death in 1976, Lars Gullin still casts a long shadow over the Scandinavian jazz scene. The baritone saxophonist was the first Swede to be accorded international recognition. He was one of Zoot Sims' Five Brothers in 1950, played with James Moody, Stan Getz, and Leonard Feather's Swinging Swedes. He won the 1954 Downbeat poll as “new star" on baritone without ever having set foot in the U.S.Today, the house where he was born on the ...


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