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Appendix was a Swedish jazz-rock ensemble behind the 1973 album Space Trip on Amigo Musik.

Members: Roy Wall (trumpet, flugelhorn), Kalle Lindberg (trombone), Helge Albin (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute), Hans Blom (piano), Ted Persson (bass), Flemming Jörgensen (drums), Lars Håkan Olson (vocals)

Background

Appendix played in the early 1970s in Malmö with saxophonist–flutist Helge Albin and pianist Hans Blom.

Albin received his first saxophone in 1953 and took music lessons at Borgarskolan in Malmö. He played baritone saxophone from age sixteen in an eight-piece band led by saxophonist Åke Strandberg, which appeared three nights each week at Amiralen in Folkets Park. The saxophonist later toured with trumpeter Leif Uvemark. Clarinetist Putte Wickman recruited Albin for his Stockholm big band.

Albin left classical clarinet studies at the Malmö conservatory to tour with Wickman and befriended tenor saxophonist Börje Fredriksson. He returned to the conservatory and qualified four years later as a classical clarinet teacher. Albin balanced studies with nighttime gigs and subsequently taught at the conservatory.

Singer Lars-Håkan Olson cut “Du är så underbart rar” (b/w “Med dig vill jag dansa (i himmelen in)”) with the Lasse Lindström orchestra for Tommo Plattor. Appendix also included bassist Ted Persson, drummer Fleming Jörgensen, trombonist Kalle Lindberg, and brass player Roy Wall (trumpet, flugelhorn). The septet convened in August 1973 at Playback Studio in Malmö to record Space Trip for Amigo Musik.

Discography:

Space Trip (1973)

References and notes

Från Tolvan till en femma — Interview with Helge Albin on Borgarskolan, Åke Strandberg, Leif Uvemark, Putte Wickman, and his conservatory studies. (Jazzporten)
Helge Albin, Tolvan Big Band: Jazzprofessor som har bråda skrivdagar — Jan Olsson’s 2007 profile identifies baritone saxophone as Albin’s instrument in the Strandberg band at Amiralen. (DIG Jazz)
Medalj till professorn från Malmö — Orkesterjournalen, no. 6/2024, page 9; places Albin in Appendix in the early 1970s. (Orkesterjournalen)
Appendix — Band entry identifies Malmö as the group’s base. (Musikon)
Du är så underbart rar — Single entry and sleeve scan identify Olson, Lasse Lindströms Orkester, both titles, and Tommo Plattor catalogue TPS 24; the entry marks 1969 as uncertain. (Musikon)
Appendix — Space Trip — Reissue-label page and reproduced back sleeve confirm the seven musicians, compositions by Albin and Blom, and the August 1973 Playback Studio session. (Mad About Records)