Max Schultz started to play guitar at the age of 10 after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert. A year later he got his first electric guitar and he soon started the band Rena VŠtskor with friends from school. They gigged in small clubs in and around Stockholm and Swedish Televison made a film about the band in 1979. A year later Max played guitar in Jah-maica, a reggae band founded by singer Ron Simmons. The same year he met bass player Christian Paulin and joined his group Mynta. Max worked with them for seven years, recording three albums with them: Havanna Club in 1983, Short Conversation in 1985 and Indian Time in 1988. During that period the band played a lot of live gigs all over Scandinavia and at international music festivals including the Montreax Jazz Festival and in Singapore, Stockholm, Bombay, New Dehli, Cuba and Nicaragua. In 1988 he toured with pianist Herbie Hancock whom he later recorded a CD with (Sixtus in 2001). He also played with alto and soprano sax player Håkan Broström's group "In and Out "and did two recordings with them; "Jazz in Sweden" 1990 and "Dark Light" in 1991. Since the beginning of nineties Max Schultz have been very busy and the decade began with Max recording with Swedish Grammy winners, singer Stina Nordenstam on "Memories of a colour" and sax player Jonas Knutsson. In 1993 Max Schultz won the annual "Jazz In Sweden" and recorded with sax player Joakim Milder, acoustic bass player Christian Spering and drummer Magnus G