Bengt-Arne Wallin

Bengt-Arne Wallin
Bengt-Arne Wallin
	Bengt-Arne Wallin 1962.
Born	13 July 1926 ; Linköping Cathedral Congregation
Died	23 November 2015 (aged 89); Sollentuna parish

Bengt-Arne Wallin (13 July 1926 – 23 November 2015) was a Swedish jazz composer, arranger, trumpeter, and flugelhorn player who played jazz influenced by Swedish traditional folk music. He also wrote film scores.^[1]

Biography

Wallin was born in Linköping. Between 1953 and 1965, he worked in the ensembles of Arne Domnérus and Lars Gullin, as well as the Radiobandet with Harry Arnold. He performed with Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson. During this time he also participated in Benny Golson's sessions with Scandinavian musicians.

His arrangements of Swedish folklore, which were initially recorded under the title Old Folklore in Swedish Modern 1962 with a big band, featured soloists such as Domnérus, Idrees Sulieman, Sahib Shihab and Georg Riedel and strings. He returned to this musical area in 1997 with the JazzBaltica ensemble (including Tomasz Stańko, Nils Landgren, Bugge Wesseltoft and Wolfgang Schlüter).^[2] From 1972 to 1993, he worked as a lecturer at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.

Awards and honors

In 1962 and 2002, he was awarded the Swedish jazz prize Gyllene Skivan. For his music production Visa fran Barnrike he received in 1970 the international radio award Prix Triumph Variete. He was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 2002.^[3] In 2010 he was honored with the Swedish Django d'Or as "Master of Jazz".