Jazz clubs appeared in the city as early as the 1920s. Gothenburg, as a port city with substantive maritime links to the United States, had an exposure to these new transatlantic sounds. With a steady influx of records, live performances followed. People such as Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Horace Silver and Dizzie Gillespie were a cornerstone of Liseberg’s summer concert programming. Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock were booked for large and prestigious venue of Konserthus. Players like Dexter Gordon jammed after hours in venues such as Art Dur. And let’s It’s not forgot the prodigious Jazz talent that Sweden has produced in such notable names as Arne Domnérus, Jan Allan, Lennart Åberg, Georg Riedel and Jan Johansson.

These five postcards of Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra and Herbie Hancock chart five pivotal Jazz performances in the city.

Prints Dimensions : 500mm X 707mm

Postcard Dimensions : 105 mm x 148 mm

Peckham Soul Prints

Designed by Craig Jamieson, these prints explore the unique diversity of Gothenburg’s cultural and social history. Focusing on archive research, they often draw on contemporaneous listing material to create completely original artwork

All designs are silk screen lithographic printed and use 100% recycled and sustainable paper.