Desc: Åke Hasselgård story: Directed by Jonas Sima. With Lars Säfström, Åke Hasselgård, Philip Zandén, Billy Bauer. Hasselgård died in a car accident 75 years ago, aged just 26, he became a legend like so many other young dead in jazz history. The clarinetist Åke Stan Hasselgård managed to play with many of the greats both in Sweden and in the USA.