Georg Riedel
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Having escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at age four, the double-bass virtuoso and composer Georg Riedel built his musical foundation in Stockholm, where early violin and cello lessons gave way to a passion for jazz and formal studies at the Royal College of Music. Emerging in the early 1950s as a member of Lars Gullin’s quintet, he quickly became a central figure in Sweden’s jazz scene, collab…
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