jazzmusiker och kompositör

This is the first book about the jazz musician and composer Georg Riedel.

Bruér/Fagius/Jönsson/Nyström

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"Finally a book about Georg Riedel! ” begins the Library Service lecturer's statement. The reviewer Morgan Palmqvist continues: "It can be said straight away that this is an extremely nice book with abundant visual material and two attached CDs. But above all, texts written by four people (…) well suited to capture Riedel's great breadth."

Yes, this is the first book about the jazz musician and composer Georg Riedel.
Few musicians have worked in such a broad, eventful and varied field of activity as Georg Riedel. From the beginning of the 1950s until today, he has belonged to the foremost Swedish musicians. In the 60s, he helped create music history with adaptations of Swedish folk music, "jazz in Swedish".
He has composed for jazz musicians, children, symphony orchestras and choirs. Songs that everyone in our country knows, ballet music, opera, musicals, church music. But mainly for jazz ensembles where he often participated himself.
To reflect all this breadth, Georg Riedel is portrayed in four chapters: on jazz, on children's songs, on choral music and the Jewish, and finally on the classical heritage.
The author is the jazz historian Jan Bruér , connoisseur of not least Swedish jazz from the 50s and 60s; Gunnel Fagius, one of our country's foremost representatives of children and song; Sofia Lilly Jönsson , former music critic in Svenska Dagbladet, now freelance writer with religion, theology and music as her subjects; finally Martin Nyström , Dagens Nyheter's chief critic for classical music and opera.

The book is richly illustrated and contains two CDs with recordings from 70 years. Many of the recordings have never before been released.