Arne Domnerus | |
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 Arne Domnérus in the early 1950s | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Sven Arne Domnérus 20 December 1924 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 2 September 2008 (aged 83) Stockholm |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1940–2000 |
| Formerly of | Swedish Radio Big Band |
Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned professional. In 1949 he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival and with Charlie Parker when Parker was on tour in Sweden in 1950. A few years later he recorded with Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, and James Moody. From the middle 1950s to the middle 1960s he was a featured soloist in the Swedish Radio Big Band. He wrote for film and television and recorded with Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg.
With Bengt-Arne Wallin, Rolf Ericson, and Åke Persson (the latter two were former members of Duke Ellington's Orchestra), he participated in the Jazz Workshops organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from the Hamburg radio station. He recorded several times with Quincy Jones in Sweden and is featured throughout, "The Midnight Sun Never Sets", composed and arranged by Jones and recorded under Jones' direction by Harry Arnold's orchestra in 1958. Domnérus' playing in his early career was typical of the cool, sophisticated, technically accomplished and lyrical style of Swedish modern jazz during the 1950s. Domnérus' health declined in his last years, and he retired from playing.
He was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 1994 and the Litteris et Artibus in 2002.
With Rune Gustafsson
With Bengt Hallberg
With Harry Arnold
With Alice Babs
With Friedrich Gulda
With Lars Gullin
With Rune Gustafsson
With Bengt Hallberg
With Jan Johansson
With Radiojazzgruppen/Jan Johansson
With Georg Riedel
With George Russell
With Lars Samuelson
With Bengt-Arne Wallin
With Monica Zetterlund
With others
