Lars Gullin was born May 4, 1928, on the island of Gotland, off the Swedish east coast. Legend say he could read music before he learned to read Swedish. His first instrument was an accordion of the ...

These handsomely recorded tributes to the legendary Swedish baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin serve as a reminder of what a superlative composer he was; the baker's dozen of beguiling melodies were ...

You couldn’t get much further from jazz’s birthplace in New Orleans, Louisiana, than the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, but it was there in the town of Visby in 1928 that one of the ...