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…
Artist details
- Type
- Person
- Area
- Sweden
- Born
- February 27th, 1934
- Died
- December 17th, 2020
- Genres