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Gunnar "Hacke" Björksten

Gunnar Olof "Hacke" Björksten (February 17, 1934 in Helsinki – December 17, 2020 in Stockholm) was a Finnish-Swedish jazz bandleader and saxophonist.

Hacke Björksten lived in Finland until 1945, when his parents moved to Sweden; he gained his first break as a teenager in Kenneth Fagerlund's band in Gothenburg. In 1954, he founded his own ensemble in Stockholm, which included trombonist Åke Persson…

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Type
Person
Area
Sweden
Born
February 27th, 1934
Died
December 17th, 2020
Genres
Last updated: March 8th, 2023

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