Pelle Hultén

Swedish self-taught jazz drummer from Borås. He started in Ingemar Sambrant's ensemble on February 2, 1952 with a performance in the city's Folkets Park. The stay there lasted until January of the following year. Then it was time to learn more (the conductor thought!). An intensive period of training began and Pelle returned to the orchestras as a new musician. He then played with Lysjö's dance orchestra (mixed modern and old as the time dictated) and substituted in the popular Stig Dowers from Limmared. Then with Curt Alm in his orchestra. When Jean Josefson reformed his orchestra in 1954, he was offered a place there and kept it until 1962. He then moved to Stockholm, where his first engagement was with Bob Ellis' orchestra. After some luck with Amerikalinjen, he played with the Knäpp Upp orchestra under the conductor Leif Asp and together with e.g. former driller Rolf Billberg. Later also followed a period with TV celebrity Lasse Samuelsson's Swing Sing Seven. Other famous musicians like Pelle Kompat are Ove Lind, Roffe Larsson and Staffan Broms. He was a loyal guest at the popular Stampen in Stockholm. In 1972, swing king Benny Goodman visited Paris. Some Swedish jazz musicians — Roffe Larsson (p), Lars Erstrand (vb), Nicke Wöhrman (g), Arne Wilhelmsson (b) and Pelle Hultén (dr) — were invited to play with him at a televised charity concert. Use Pelle Hultén