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Tore Westlund

Swedish clarinet and saxophone player, born on December 10, 1910 in Västerås, died on January 22, 1995 in Enskede. He went to the Academy of Music (Musikaliska Akademien) at the age of 14 to study clarinet. During his years in school he started to play in Helge Lindberg's Orchestra at Vasateatern. Between 1933-1936 he played with Georg Enders at Berns and moved later to Håkan Von Eichwald. In the autumn of 1938 he started to play for Thore Ehling at Grand Hotel Royal and considered to be one of the best jazz clarinetists in Sweden. In 1940 he moved to [a=Sune Waldimirs Orkester] and became a solo clarintist of Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester.