Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, Swedish double bassist and composer Georg
Riedel made a name for himself in jazz and film music. Named Jiří at birth, he
was just four years old when his Jewish parents fled the country for Stockholm,
Sweden, where George Riedel grew up. Trained in classical music by his amateur
cellist father, he successively played violin, cello and double bass at the
conservatory and won an amateur jazz competition. Joining Lasse Bagge's quintet
in 1951, Georg Riedel formed his own quartet two years later, accompanying Lars
Gullin and then Arne Domnérus. H...