TOMAS FRANCK

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The Early Years Tomas Franck was born in 1958 in the small town of Engelholm in Sweden, close to Helsingborg, where he grew up in a music-loving family. Tomas Franck started playing the clarinet when he was ten and switched to the tenor saxophone at the age of fifteen. He soon began gigging at a local club in Helsingborg in a quartet with the legendary blind pianist Lennart Nilsson (who appears on a live recording from Sweden with Charlie Parker). Here Franck had the opportunity to play with some of the finest musicians in Sweden, as well as Americans such as Dexter Gordon, Tim Hagans, Richard Boone, Pepper Adams, Idrees Sulieman and Ernie Wilkins - just to mention a few.

He moved to Malmoe in 1978 and studied at Musikhøgskolan (music school) for two years. Here he met the Swedish alto sax player Håkan Broström and together they formed the
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TOMAS FRANCK Crystal Ball album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Crystal Ball
Hard Bop 1994
TOMAS FRANCK Copenhagen Connection album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Copenhagen Connection
Hard Bop 2006

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TOMAS FRANCK Tomas Franck In New York album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tomas Franck In New York
Hard Bop 1994
TOMAS FRANCK At The Circus album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At The Circus
Hard Bop 1999
TOMAS FRANCK Association (Live at Jazzhus Montmartre) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Association (Live at Jazzhus Montmartre)
Hard Bop 2016

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