Lennart Axelsson (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swedish musician
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Place of Birth: Sweden
About Lennart Axelsson (musician)
- Lennart Axelsson (born July 11, 1941) is a Swedish trumpet player who has spent a good part of his career in Germany.
- Born and raised in Sweden, he began his career in a Swedish armed forces band.
- Disillusioned with military life, he quit to become a full-time musician, playing with various jazz bands in Sweden.
- In the early 1970s, he moved to Zürich, Switzerland to take a job in the big band of Swiss radio station Schweizer Radio DRS.
- In 1974, he joined the James Last Orchestra.
- He was one of the featured trumpet soloists on Last's 1975 album In The Mood For Trumpets, along with Rick Kiefer and Ack van Rooyen; this was notable as Last's record company Polydor usually did not credit the individual personnel on Last's studio recordings.
- In 1979, Axelsson left the Last band and joined the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, or North German Radio) big band, where he eventually became the featured trumpet soloist.
- He retired from the NDR band in 2005.
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