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Swedish funk and jazz trombone participant Nils Landgren spent his formative years in the music college in Karlstad with the university in Arvika learning traditional trombone. He found out improvisation following a ending up in jazz legends Bengt-Arne Wallin and Eje Thelin and relocated to Stockholm, and he toured with …

b. 1964, Birmingham, Western Midlands, England. Motivated into music by his Jamaican-born parents and by his trombonist sibling, Winston Rollins, Dennis also used the trombone. Although his early hearing was funk, by his early teenagers he was hearing and playing jazz. As he created his own design, both forms came …