Home » Staff Directory » Member Page

Lars Jansson

Member Since: 2016 | Location: Malmo | Page Views: 1,219

Contact Me Pro

About Me

Lars Jansson is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. His trio has long been one of the most renowned jazz groups in Sweden. In 1998, Lars was nominated to the Danish Jazzpar Prize and he became the first jazz professor in Aarhus, Denmark. He was honored in Denmark with a Grammy in 2001 for the ”Best International Album,” Hope, the Lars Jansson Trio. Other than jazz piano trio, Lars has composed music for small jazz groups, big bands, choirs, saxophone quartets, woodwind quintets, string quartets and chamber orchestra. The original music in this collection of selected piano transcriptions and lead sheets are from his numerous recordings to date with the Lars Jansson Trio. Selected discografi Arild Andersen; Shimri (ECM), Green shading into blue (ECM) Radka Toneff; Winter Poem (Verve), It don´t come easy (Verve) Lars Jansson Trio; A window towards being (Imogena), Invisible friends (Imogena), The time we have (Imogena), Hope (Imogena), Witnessing (Imogena), At Ease, live in Tokyo (Spice of Life) I am That (Imogena) , Worship of Self (Spice of Life), In search of lost time (Spice of Life ), Whats New (Spice of Life) Koan (Spice of Life) Sounds of my color (Naxos)Facing the Wall (Spice of Life) Lars Jansson Trio/Ove Ingemarsson “Everything I Love” (Spice of Life) Bohuslän Bigband plays Lars Jansson, ”the Blue Pearl” (Phono Suecia), One poem, one painting-Bohuslän Bigband (Imogena) Temenos (Spice of life) Paulo Fresu Paul McCandles Johan Borgström Christian Spering Morten Lund Giving Receiving Jazz from Sweden-North American tour-91 (Caprice) Red Mitchell-Evolution (Dragon) Rune Gustafsson (Eagle records) Tolvan Bigband-Colours (Phono Suecia) Hans Ulrik-Strange World (Stunt) Caecilie Norby (Blue Note), My corner of the sky (Blue Note) Slow Fruit Lars Danielsson European Voices Lars Jansson-Tommy Kotter Sound Pictures Two pianos (Spice of life) Peter Vuust with Veronica Mortensen Ove Ingemarsson with Adam Nussbaum Heart of the Matter (imogena) Sinne Eeg Waiting for Dawn Teaching at The Royal Academy of Music in Aahus, Denmark Academy of Music in Esbjerg, Denmark Högskolan för Scen o Musik-HSM, Göteborgs Universitet Running a jazzfestival every summer in Ljungskile since 87 Studied Yoga, meditation and the analytical psykology of C.G. Jung for 20 years

Badge

Tier

Listener

Points Earned

119


Favorite Musicians / Bands

My Jazz Story

My House Concert Story

Favorite Places to See Jazz

Favorite Genres

Favorite Columns

Favorite Writers


This page was last updated on 2016-11-01.

Engage

Publisher's Desk
Radio & Podcast News plus How AAJ Works
Read on...
The place for jazz polls and surveys!
Reader Polls
Which jazz venues deserve to be on top?
Cast Your Vote Today

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletters highlight our top stories, top album reviews, website news, free songs, radio & podcast shows, news, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.