Swedish jazz baritone saxophonist
Born August 22, 1930 in Lund, Sweden
Died August 17, 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden.
Aged 17, Billberg became a military musician with clarinet as his main instrument. He switched to tenor saxophone after four years, but it was as an alto saxophonist that he later made his main contribution.
During the 1950s, like Arne Domnérus and Willy Lundin, he was an alto saxophonist of high international class, influenced primarily by Lee Konitz. He often performed with trumpeter Jan Allan.