Bengt Hallberg has been played on NTS in shows including Doing Time , featured first on 12 December 2021. Songs played include Kvällen Stundar.

Bengt Hallberg (born 13 September 1932) was one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians. He studied classical piano from a very early age, and at 13 years old he wrote his first jazz arrangement. In 1949 he recorded with the Swedish alto saxophonist Arne Domnérus for the first time, an association which has continued. In the 1950s Hallberg played with leading visiting American players, including the trumpeter Clifford Brown and the tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and also Quincy Jones.[1][2] Hallberg had a…