Swe-Danes

{{Short description|Danish-Swedish jazz and entertainment trio}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | background = group_or_band | caption = The Swe-Danes in 1961, from left to right: Svend Asmussen, Alice Babs and Ulrik Neumann | image = swe-danes.jpg | origin = {{Hlist|Denmark|Sweden}} | genre = {{Hlist|Jazz|scat singing<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|date=2017-02-08|title=Svend Asmussen, irreverent jazz violin virtuoso, dies at 100|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/svend-asmussen-irreverent-jazz-violin-virtuoso-dies-at-100/2017/02/07/e3aee760-ed59-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html|access-date=2020-09-18|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>}} | years_active = 1958–1963 | past_members = * Svend Asmussen * Ulrik Neumann * Alice Babs | label = }}

'''Swe-Danes''' was a Danish-Swedish jazz and entertainment trio (music, comedy, dance) consisting of Svend Asmussen (violin), Ulrik Neumann (guitar and occasionally vocals) and Alice Babs (singing).

Swe-Danes participated in the revue "Evergreens" in Stockholm and raised international attention. In 1958-1961 they showed up in the big scenes in Scandinavia, England and Germany as well as in the United States, among other at Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. In 1961 they appeared on ''The Dinah Shore Chevy Show'' hosted by Dinah Shore. In the episode, "Dinah Travels to Denmark", Dinah duets with Alice on "Sittin' On Top of the World".<ref name="Inman2005">{{cite book|author=Inman|first=David M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiYTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA268|title=Television Variety Shows: Histories and Episode Guides to 57 Programs|date=16 November 2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2198-5|page=268}}</ref>

Popular records are ''Scandinavian Shuffle'' (1960)<ref name="BjörnbergBossius2016">{{cite book|last1=Björnberg|first1=Alf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aiElDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA220|title=Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music|last2=Bossius|first2=Thomas|date=8 December 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-85850-7|page=228}}</ref> and ''Swe-Danes på Berns'' (1961). The trio was dissolved in 1963.

== Citations ==

Category:Swedish jazz ensembles Category:Danish jazz ensembles Category:Musical groups established in 1958 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1963 Category:1958 establishments in Sweden Category:1963 disestablishments in Sweden Category:1958 establishments in Denmark Category:1963 disestablishments in Denmark