Dan Berglund

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Dan Berglund
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Berglund performing in 2017
Background information
Born (1963-05-05) 5 May 1963 (age 61)
Pilgrimstad, Sweden
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Jazz musician, composer
Instrument(s) Upright bass, bass guitar
Labels ACT
Formerly of Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Website tonbruket.com

Dan Berglund (born 5 May 1963) is a Swedish musician who mainly plays the upright bass and is known within jazz and fusion. [1]

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Biography

Dan Berglund and Sidsel Endresen at Vossajazz 2016 DanBerglund-SidselEndresen-Vossajazz2016.jpg
Dan Berglund and Sidsel Endresen at Vossajazz 2016

Berglund was familiar with Swedish folk music as well as with pop and rock music. At the age of ten he started playing rock guitar, but later changed to bass guitar. As part of his musical training at the Birka Folkhögskola in Östersund he came to pick up the upright bass and played in the regional symphony orchestra, with whom he also had guest performances and first television appearances. In 1990 he moved to Stockholm to study at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan. There he played in the group Jazz Furniture and in the quintet of Lina Nyberg, where he met Esbjörn Svensson.

From 1993 he was a member of the highly successful Esbjörn Svensson Trio, with whom he recorded numerous albums and toured worldwide. He was a member of the trio until the death of Svensson in 2008. In 2009 he founded his own crossover band Tonbruket, which includes Johan Lindström (guitar, keyboards), Martin Hederos (piano, accordion, violin, keyboards) and Andreas Werliin (drums, percussion), who do not come from the jazz scene. The band's 2009 debut album was awarded a Swedish Grammy. [1]

Selected discography

Solo

With Tonbruket

Collaborations

With Esbjörn Svensson Trio

See Esbjörn Svensson Trio#Discography

With Jeanette Lindström Quintet
With Fire! Orchestra
With others

References

  1. 1 2 "Dan Berglund". Biography. All About Jazz . Retrieved 2015-05-26.
  2. "Dan Berglund". Discography. Discogs.com . Retrieved 2015-05-26.