Charles Redland

Carl Gustaf Mauritz Nilsson, known professionally as Charles Redland (July 7, 1911 – August 18, 1994) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.^[1]

Born in Södertälje, the son of a musician, Redland learned several instruments when he was young. In the 1930s he was a member of bands in which he played alto saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. During that decade he also worked as a leader. On clarinet he recorded with Benny Carter in Sweden in 1936.^[2] He composed and arranged jazz and popular music.^[2] He also composed for more than 80 films, as well as for radio and TV programs.^[3] He died in Stockholm.

Filmography

• The Song to Her (1934)
• A Girl for Me (1943)
• Eaglets (1944)
• Stopp! Tänk på något annat (1944) (with others)
• The Wedding on Solö (1946)
• Carnival Evening (1948)
• Robinson in Roslagen (1948)
• The Devil and the Smalander (1949)
• Big Lasse of Delsbo (1949)
• Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo (1952)
• Ursula, the Girl from the Finnish Forests (1953)
• Dance in the Smoke (1954)
• People of the Finnish Forests (1955)
• Stage Entrance (1956)
• Seventeen Years Old (1957)
• Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1957)
• Blonde in Bondage (1957)
• The Jazz Boy (1958)
• A Goat in the Garden (1958)
• A Lion in Town (1959)
• Heaven and Pancake (1959)
• The Children of Bullerbyn Village (1960)
• Sten Stensson Returns (1963)
• Andersson's Kalle (1972)
• Andersson's Kalle on Top Form (1973)