Jerker Lindstrom

Jerker Lindstrom and the Swedish Radio Jazz Group: April in T

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2001

As there are no liner notes accompanying April in Täby, one is given no information about Jerker Lindström aside from a single photograph of him conducting the well–scrubbed Swedish Radio Jazz Group, in which he appears to be a teen–ager. If that’s true Lindström must also be a prodigy, as he wrote and arranged every number on the album and offers a warm–blooded tenor solo on “Aska.” But a more logical assumption is that he simply looks quite young for ...