Christer Bothén is a Swedish jazz musician and visual artist. In the early 1970s, he worked with Don Cherry’s Swedish group and contributed to recordings with him. From the mid-1970s, he was a member of groups such as Spjärnsvallet and Archimedes Badkar, participating in recordings with both ensembles. In the early 1980s, he joined Bengt Berger’s Bitter Funeral Beer Band and contributed—along with Don Cherry—to the ECM album Bitter Funeral Beer, also performing with the group at the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt in 1982. From 1984 onwards, he recorded with Bolon Bata, releasing albums such as Trance Dance and Mother Earth. Under his own name, he released The Spirit Of Milvus Milvus (1996), among other albums. He appeared as a soloist on bass clarinets at the Météo Festival in Mulhouse in 2016 and has also been active in projects such as Mats Gustafsson’s Nu Ensemble. In 2020, he received the Jazz Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
