Jonas Kullhammar

Jonas Kullhammar (2 September 1978 in Nacka, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz composer, saxophonist and is one of Sweden’s most established jazz musicians. Career Since 1998 his main group has been Jonas Kullhammar Quartet, and he has participated on over 150 records as a sideman. In year 2000 he released his debut recording, the self-produced “Salut”. It won him Sweden Radio’s Jazz Cat award as the newcomer of the year. He also received the Django D’or award and received the price Sweden Radio’s Jazz Cat as Jazz Musician of The Year in Sweden two years in a row. The group also received the award for jazz group of the year. Since then the band has toured around the world and released more CDs. Jonas is also a founding member of the groups Kullrusk and Nacka Forum. Since 2000 he runs the record label Moserobie, that releases mainly Swedish and Norwegian jazz groups. *2017: Jan Johansson-award Swedish jazz critics “Jazzkatten” awards *2000: Newcomer of the year *2002: Jazz Artist of The Year *2002: Jazz Group Of The Year (Jonas Kullhammar Quartet) *2003: Jazz Artist of The Year Nominations for the Swedish grammy *2002: with Nacka Forum *2003: with JKQ for Plays Loud for The People *2004: wi