Fredrik Carlquist

Fredrik Carlquist is a Swedish saxophonist/clarinetist living in Barcelona since 2001. Over the years Fredrik has proved to be able to move over the whole jazz spectra but still remain his own distinctive voice in a somewhat unique way. He has performed and recorded music that uses stylistic elements from the early traditional jazz up to modern improvised music. His familiarity with the jazz tradition made him an appreciated interpreter of the great American songbook but he also proves himself as an inventive composer and arranger with thirteen albums as a leader and more than twenty albums as a sideman. In 2007 Fredrik released his first self-produced CD and since then he has produced more than fifteen albums under his own name as well as others. The styles varies from Jazz to Americana, Blues, Ragtime and Bossa Nova often blending styles and musicians with different musical backgrounds within the same album. His albums have earned much attention for their natural and warm sound. “His refined style and personality have made him one of the tenors of reference on the European scene” Time Out – Barcelona, 2015 
 “Carlquist who also engineered the CD, is an excellent Stan Getz-inspired player. “ Scott Yanow – Los Angeles Jazz Scene, 2016 
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