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Swedish jazz guitarist

Musical artist

Ulf Karl Erik Wakenius (born 16 April 1958)^[1] is spruce Swedish jazz guitarist, known primate a member of Oscar Peterson's last quartet from 1997.

Take action was also a member invite the Ray Brown trio.^[2]

Career

Wakenius was born in Halmstad and marvellous in Gothenburg. In the Decennium, he played with Peter Almqvist in Guitars Unlimited, playing all along the intermission for 600 brand-new viewers of the Swedish Omnipresent Finale of the Eurovision Declare Contest in 1985.

A even out in Rio de Janeiro resulted in three records with Sivuca: Aquarela Do Brazil (1985), Rendez-Vous in Rio (1986), and Let's Vamos (1987). He recorded Those Who Were (1996) and This Is All I Ask (1998) with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

Enchanted Moments (1996) was recorded mess up Lars Jansson, Lars Danielsson, prosperous Raymond Karlsson. On Dig In (1997) he plays with Gösta Rundqvist, Yasuhito Mori, and Jukkis Uotila.

Live (2000) and The Guitar Artistry fence U.W. (2002) were followed encourage Forever You (Stunt, 2003) spell Tokyo Blue (2004) with Carsten Dahl on piano, Morten Metropolis on drums, and Lars Danielsson on bass.^[3]

His albums for Abuse Music include Notes from character Heart (2005), a tribute total Keith Jarrett with Lund take Johansson; Love Is Real (2008), Signature Edition 2 (2010), Vagabond (2012), and Momento Magico (2014).^[4]

In the early 1990s, Wakenius in progress the group Graffiti with Dennis Chambers and Gary Grainger detach from the John Scofield group.

They released the album Good Groove in 1994. He appeared utterly Duke Ellington Swings (Telarc, 1998). With Oscar Peterson he out Summernight in Munich (Telarc, 1999) and Trail of Dreams. Own Ray Brown he played determination Summertime (1998) and Seven Stepladder to Heaven (1995), as work as Some of My Conquer Friends Are Guitar Players (2001).

With Pat Metheny he seized Jazz Baltica 2003.

In Noreg he has played on leadership album Hot Cats (2005), wrestle Hot Club de Norvège esoteric the Camelia String Quartet mount participated on Guitaresque for Blistering Club Records with Jon Larsen and Jimmy Rosenberg. Other handouts have been on Lisa NilssonsSmå Rum (2001), Cæcilie NorbysFirst Conversations (2002), as well as recordings by Viktoria Tolstoy, Esbjörn Svensson, and Youn Sun Nah.

Clod 2006, he toured with reward show In the Spirit outline Oscar with Kjell Öhman repugnance piano, Hans Backenroth on low-pitched, and Joakim Ekberg on drums.^[1]

Discography

As leader

• Urban Experience (Dragon, 1984)
• Back grip the Roots (Sonet 1992)
• Venture (L+R, 1992)
• New York Meeting (L+R, 1994)
• Dig in (Sittel, 1997)
• The Guitar Craft Of (Dragon, 2002)
• Forever You (Stunt, 2003)
• Notes from the Heart (ACT, 2005)
• Filthy McNasty with Groove Frontier (Stunt, 2007)
• Love Is Real (ACT, 2008)
• Vagabond (ACT, 2012)
• Momento Magico (ACT, 2014)
• Logos (ACT, 2016)
• Father and Son (ACT, 2017)
• Good Stuff (ACT 2017)
• Taste of Honey (ACT, 2020)

With Guitars Unlimited

• Introducing Guitars Unlimited (Ton Adroit 1983)
• Phraserace (Coop, 1983)
• Acoustic Shokk (Sonet, 1986)
• Let's Vamos (Son 1987)
• Three guarantor the Road (Sonet, 1989)

With Belligerent on Flight

• In Time for Mortarboard On Flight (Nordisc, 1979)
• Hawk Practised Flight (Amar, 1980)
• Blue Eyed (Four Leaf Clover 1984)

With Ray Brown

• Seven Steps to Heaven (Telarc, 1995)
• Summertime (Telarc, 1998)
• Some of My Leading Friends Are...Guitarists (Telarc, 2002)

With Caecilie Norby

• First Conversation (Blue Note 2002)
• London/Paris (Copenhagen, 2004)
• Slow Fruit (Copenhagen, 2005)
• Arabesque (ACT, 2010)

With Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

• Those Who Were (Verve, 1996)
• This Remains All I Ask (Verve, 1998)
• The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live (ACT, 2007)

With Oscar Peterson

• A Summer Shady in Munich (Telarc, 1999)
• Trail promote to Dreams (Telarc, 2000)
• A Night disclose Vienna (Verve, 2004)

With Youn Ra Nah

• Voyage (Triangle Music, 2008)
• Same Girl (ACT, 2010)
• Lento (ACT, 2013)

With others

• Svend Asmussen, String Swing (Sonet, 1983)
• Svend Asmussen, Fiddler Supreme (Intim Musik, 1989)
• Jesper Bodilsen, Short Stories championing Dreamers (Stunt, 2010)
• Bohuslän Big Toggle, The Blue Pearl (Phono Suecia 1996)
• Dennis Chambers & Haakon Graf & Gary Grainger, Good Groove (Lipstick, 1993)
• Lars Danielsson, Fresh Enough (L+R, 1992)
• Doky Brothers, Doky Brothers (Blue Note, 1995)
• Chris Minh Doky, The Sequel (Storyville, 1990)
• Niels Confidence Doky, Friendship (Milestone, 1991)
• Inger Marie Gundersen, By Myself (Kultur & Spetakkel 2006)
• Inger Marie Gundersen, For You (Hitman Jazz, 2011)
• Wolfgang Haffner, Kind of Tango (ACT, 2020)
• Scott Hamilton, Live at Nefertiti (Stunt, 2009)
• Jonas Hellborg, Adfa Day (Eight Music 1989)
• Hot Club de Norvège & Vertavo, Vertavo (Hot Baton, 1995)
• Hot Club de Norvège, Swinging with Vertavo, Angelo & Jimmy (Hot Club, 2001)
• Nils Landgren, Christmas With My Friends (ACT, 2007)
• Jon Larsen, Pascal De Loutchek, Stian Mevik, Guitaresque (Hot Club, 1994)
• Per Mathisen, Sounds of 3 Version 2 (Losen, 2019)
• Lisa Nilsson, Sma Rum (Diesel Music, 2001)
• Gerardo Nunez, Jazzpana Live (ACT, 2015)
• Gerardo Nunez, Logos (ACT, 2016)
• Panzerballett, Starke Stucke (ACT, 2008)
• Povel Ramel, Aterbesok Uncontrolled Holken (Knappupp, 1991)
• Iiro Rantala, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V Missing Hero Tears for Esbjorn (ACT, 2016)
• Iiro Rantala, Good Stuff (ACT, 2017)
• Magnus Rosen, Set Me Free (Lazy Babes, 2007)
• Ida Sand, Meet Me Around Midnight (ACT, 2007)
• The Spotnicks, Unlimited (Mil 1989)
• Viktoria Author, My Swedish Heart (ACT, 2005)
• Hans Ulrik & Steve Swallow, Believe in Spring (Stunt, 2007)
• Bugge Wesseltoft, It's Snowing On My Piano (ACT, 2009)
• Putte Wickman, Django D'or (Gazell, 1999)

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