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Oct 14, 1958 Ängelholm, Skåne County, Sweden 65 years old
Swedish saxophonist
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About Tomas Franck
- Tomas Bengt Erik Franck (born October 14, 1958, Angelholm) is a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. Franck was raised in the town of Helsingborg, where he took up clarinet as a youth, switching to tenor sax in his teens.
- He studied at the Musik-högskolan in Malmö in the early 1980s, where he formed a group called Equinox and performed with Peps Persson; starting in 1982, he began playing with Fredrik Norén, an association that would last until 1986.
- In the 1990s he worked with the Radioens Big Band and was the recipient of the Ben Webster Prize in 1991. Franck has performed and recorded extensively as a sideman with, among others, Nikolaj Bent-zon, Ben Besiakov, Thomas Blachman, Thomas Clausen, Carsten Dahl, Niels Lan Doky, Billy Drummond, Al Foster, Lennart Ginman, Roy Haynes, Kirk Lightsey, Doug Raney, and Jens Winther.
