Illinois Jaqcuet / Johnny Griffin / NEXUS / JiM

Illinois Jacquet

Was also a great jazzcat that very often had conserts in Copenhagen and in Malmö too.

I don´t remember if he joined the teachers or the clinics, maybe I am wrong here, but he had always his own band. What I can recall he didn´t join any of the jamsessions at Malmö jazzclub "Bohemia"  or later "Fredmans" at all, as the other cats often did.

But Malmös closeness to the biggest Jazzcity in Scandinavia Copenhagen surely drag him to do gigs at several places in Denmark I´m sure.

Check this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Jacquet

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NEXUS

Was a great Jazzfusion-band from Malmö too. Inspired not only by the fusiongroup Weather Report. They had thier own style that attracted both fusion and ordinary jazzlisteners. 

I was living in Malmö Sweden 1976~1996. 

But the names here are just the few Americans that visited Malmö. They all lived in Copenhagen and played there also very often.

The club mostly featured Swedish "young" talents that came from mostly south of Sweden and the school. Of course the "backing cats" were those who were available from the Jazz-Highschool.

But, I Must name a few that still around, that I still remember:

Håkan Broström (sax), Thomas Franck (ts)

Anders Bergcrantz (tr)

But you mustn´t forget the University town close to Malmö; Lund as a concertown.

This town had Conserts with BIG names  at Places like Olympen, Pub Sparta and AF ( Students society).

Names like: ABBA, Count Basie, Procul Harum, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock Headhunters, Woody Hermans Big Band. Chick Corea:s RTF, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Janne Shaffer (Earmeal) and Manhattan Transfer and many many more.

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I end up this little Jazz nostalgia-trip from Malmö/ Sweden

With Johnny Griffin, also a Jazzcat that made many great conserts in Malmö.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Griffin 

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Jazz i Malmö (JiM) History and a tradition that always came the 13 of dec was the great jazzfestival at a place called "Swing-Inn" near the center of Malmö. This festival started 12 O´clock at noon and ended 12 O´clock at night. There were bands playing at every floor. This building had 4 floors.No food was served but there was restaurants around the corners.

The big final was when 12:an big band ended the whole show!

At 12 o´clock!

You might say that you ran up and down the stairs to check out the "goodies". Lots of beer and all kinds of jazz!

Here it is:

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6027036,13.0035681,3a,75y,271.05h,104.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB9D7OkAXdF16LNtFOs3Zgg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

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This link is in Swedish

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http://jazzimalmo.com/om-jazz-i-malmo/historik/

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  Maybe I have forgotten one or two of the Big Stars, some that are gone today, and some is still around, but not in Scandinavia any more. I think now you probably know who will be "starring" jazzcats tomorrow, don´t you?