Fredrik Ljungkvist
Håkan Fredrik Ljungkvist, is a Swedish jazz musician, the son of saxophonist Håkan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.
Career
Ljungkvist was raised in Lidköping, and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As jazz student he played with jazz bands in Stockholm, like Fredrik Noren Band, Lina Nyberg Group and Per "Texas" Johansson band. In 1993 he formed his own Quartet with whom he released two albums.In 2000 he composed a 30 minutes long piece for the Pipeline project, a collaboration between 16 Swedish and American musicians on initiative by the Svenska Rikskonserter. The piece was performed in Chicago and Sweden.
Honors
- 2004: "Jazz kannan" as the musician of the year from the Swedish Jazz Society
Discography
Solo albums
;Within Fredrik Ljungkvist Quartet- 1995: Falling Papers
- 1997: ''Sonic Space''
Collaborations
;Within the "Swedish Open" hosted by Christian Falk- 1999: Swedish Open
- 2002: Dirty Dancin
- 2000: Walk, Stop, Look And Walk
- 2003: Fungus
- 2001: Feet Music
- 2003: Boom Boom
- 2004: Nuclear Assembly Hall, with "School Days"
- 2005: The Bikini Tapes, live recording
- 2006: Happy New Ears
- 2008: Retrograde
- 2008: Distil, with "School Days"
- 2010: Theater Tilters
- 2011: Here Comes Everybody
- 2013: There's A Hole in the Mountain
- 2002: Atlas
- 2004: Map Theory
- 2005: Company Switch
- 2006: New Horse for the White House
- 2007: Collide
- 2004: Rica
- 2004: Live at Glenn Miller Café
- 2004: Yun Kan 12345
- 2007: Badaling
- 2013: Ten
- 2009: Collaborations
- 2013: We Travel The Airwaves
- 2013: And It Happened... TUM Records)
- 2013: Occupy The World TUM Records)
- 2013: Exit!
- 2014: Enter
- 2014: Second Exit
- 2013: ''Pipeline''