BIOGRAPHY
Fredrik Lindborg was born in Fisksätra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, in the spring of 1979. At a very young age he was determined to become a jazz musician. This was because his father started playing records with Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Sonny Rollins and many others from the moment he came home from the hospital.
At last, when he was nine, he started playing the saxophone at the music school in Nacka. After only a year he played with the school’s improvisation group and the big band.
For his high school studies, he went to Södra Latin which had a jazz program. There he met a lots of like-minded musicians and really started to develop. At this time he started to play matinee gigs at the jazz club Fasching. During the summers he played a lot with Gustav and Hampus Lundgren and Niklas Bodin at restaurants in the archipelago.
After high school he kept on studying music for one year at Skurups folkhögskola and for one year at Fridhems folkhögskola. During this time the band Hot Club de Suède was started. Fredrik has never been a full-time member but played with them on close to every other gig. This has included several long tours and broadcasts on the radio.
As many of the young jazz musicians of today, Fredrik continued studying jazz at the university, not in Stockholm, but in Gothenburg. The most profitable thing from the school was the arranging class with Peter Burman, which has been useful for him in the band Stockholm Swing all stars.
In Gothenburg he and his friend Victor Furbacken started the band ’’Marmaduke – a tribute to Charlie Parker’’ which had been a dream of Fredrik’s since his childhood. Before this he only played the tenor, but now he had to pick up his alto which he hadn’t been playing since the age of twelve. Since then, Marmaduke has done a lot of gigs, among others a gig at Stockholm Jazz Festival. Two records has been the result,"Marmaduke – a tribute to bird" (2004) and"Marmaduke – Conflictions" (Imogena 2008)
During this period he also started to play a lot with The Bohuslän Big band which is one of the best big bands in Sweden. The band played among others with Dick Oats and Steve Swallow. Here he didn’t play the tenor or the alto, but the baritone and the bass clarinet which he has kept on playing in the Swedish jazz trio and Klas Lindquist nonet.
In 2003 he moved back to Stockholm where he soon started the eight piece band Stockholm swing all stars. As the name says it is a swing band playing arrangement by Fredrik. At first they played mostly at the jazz club Stamen but now they play above all at concert halls and bigger festivals.
In 2005 he started his quartet. He hired his old friend Gustav Lundgren on guitar and on bass and drums the two great musicians Kenji Rabson and Moussa Fadera. The band has since then been touring both in Sweden but also in Japan, Turkey and other European countries. The quartet has become one of the most popular in Sweden and the record that was recorded in 2006 has received dazzling reviews both in Swedish and international press. Fredrik recently received the award ‘’the jazz cat’’ from the Swedish radio. The repertoire in the quartet consists mostly of Fredrik’s originals but also one or two standards with his arrangements. The music is above all inspired by early 1960’s - bop and Sonny Rollins, but includes other influences as well.
The trio LSD was formed in 2011 with Martin Sjöstedt on the bass and Daniel Fredriksson on the drums. A record was made in 2012 which has received great reviews
In 2012 Fredrik received the prestigious price "the Golden Sax" in memory of the late Swedish saxofoninst Arne Domnerus. Fredrik also played the part of Domnérus in the film about Monica Zetterlund. It was filmed in the summer and will be released in the autumn of 2013.
In 2013 he formed a new trio with Daniel Tilling on piano and Emeli Jeremias on cello and vocals. Trio Mirsidrü plays the music of George Gershwin.
Fredrik is highly appreciated for his inventive improvisations, his strong passion, and the convincing rhythm in his phrasing as well as his strong and warm sound. Fredrik is proficient in many of the genres of jazz, from early swing to modern jazz.