Lucas Lindholm

Swedish bassist, born on March 2, 1943 in Lund, Skåne. Lindholm grew up in a musical family and began playing cello and piano at the age of nine. At the age of 13 he switched to double bass; just one year later he played with dance and jazz bands. At the local music school, Lindholm received classical double bass lessons from the age of 15; soon he also played in the local youth orchestra. After completing his military service, he moved to Malmö, where he accompanied American jazz musicians such as Johnny Griffin and Dexter Gordon. With Gordon he played together for many years in different line-ups. In addition, he completed classical double bass studies at the conservatory; especially on the electric bass he was active at this time as a studio musician. He then moved to Stockholm, where he also worked with Kenny Dorham, Toots Thielemans, Georg Riedel and Lars Berghagen. In 1970 Lindholm worked for the first time at Norddeutscher Rundfunk; the following year, Franz Thon brought him into Das NDR-Tanzorchester, from which The NDR Big Band emerged via the NDR studio band. Until 2008 he was a permanent member and participated in numerous productions with jazz greats such as Phil Wilson, Joe Pass, Heiner Stadler, Howard Johnson (3), Albert Mangelsdorff, Heinz Sauer, Mathias Rüegg, Michael Gibbs, Norma Winstone and Stan Tracey. Peter Herbolzheimer also brought him into his Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass. He can also be heard on albums with Janne Schaffer, Chet Baker, Herb Geller, Michael Naura, Wolfgang Schlüter, Christoph Oeding, Klaus Weiss, Kai Bussenius, Hannes Wader, Ernst Jandl, Harald Juhnke, Stefan Gwildis, Bert Kaempfert and Kai Warner. In 1985 Lindholm was also appointed professor of double bass and electric bass at the Department of Jazz at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.