Artist Info: Putte Wickman

Hans Olof "Putte" Wickman (10 September 1924 – 14 February 2006) was a Swedish jazz clarinetist.

Born Hans Olof Wickman in Falun, he grew up in Borlänge, Sweden, where his parents hoped he would become a lawyer. He nagged them to allow him to go to high school in Stockholm. When he arrived in the capital he still did not know what jazz was, and said in an interview many years later he was probably the only 15-year-old who did not. Since he did not have access to a piano in Stockholm [read more...]