Rune Öfwerman was one of Sweden's most influential and respected jazz pianists, arrangers, composers an producers. He worked with and recorded with several internationally recognized jazzmen and women.

Rune Öfwerman (1932 - 2013) has been a leading personality during the golden age of Swedish jazz, not least as a producer and arranger of many classical jazz recordings. He started playing jazz at the age of twelve and formed the band Boogie Bop Six in 1948 together with Lasse Bagge and Georg Riedel, and went on to play with Tony Mason's Orchestra from 1952, and later with Carl-Henrik Norin (1954-1956). With Dag Häggqvist he founded the record company Gazell in 1957, and was the manager and accompanist of Sylvia Vrethammar.—Ulf Kjell Gür