It all started back in 1955
when Eddie Bruhner began his career in a band called East End Jazz Men. It was at that time just a school band and won several important school band competitions,which were very common in those days. The band became more and more popular, resulting in recordings, radio and TV-shows. During the years 1959-69 the band was touring abroad in Denmark, Austria, Great Britain, West-Germany, Romania, Greece and Turkey. In 1969 the band changed its name to Sveriges Jazzband (The Jazz Band of Sweden) and in 1971 several "hits" were made and more TV-shows and touring followed.Since those days the band is one of the most popular jazz bands in its genre and is also in great demand for playing with visiting jazzstars, such as Wild Bill Davidson, Peanuts Hucko, Kenny Davern, Jo Newman and others. In 1980 the band had great success during a tour in California, playing at The Russian River Jazz Festival After this the band has had the honour of been invited to the famous Sacramento Dixieland jazz Jubilee at five times!

During the last years Sveriges Jazzband has been on several tours in South East Asia and visited cities such as Bangkok, Beijing, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore. In the fall of 1998 the band has visited Kuala Lumpur for the 10th time. Requests for booking the band are coming from all over the world. In March 1999 the band played in Prague for a week and in April the time was due for a visit to Warsaw.

And the international popularity is growing every year...