Sweden

Sweden The recorded interest in blues music in Sweden goes back to the 1940s, when jazz music was discovered by a larger audience. In the late 1940s Swedish jazz artists made some blues or blues-influenced recordings. At that time blues was considered a part of jazz. However, piano player Charlie Norman emerged and became very popular, recording many straight boogie-woogie tunes. He is still active. In the 1940s the first serious collectors of blues records also had their start by first…