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Koan

Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Shikantaza; Koan 3; El Piloto; A Gentle Heart; Iceland; He Who Sings And Sobs; Too Good To Me; Romantic; Uroboros; Jamal; Koan 2; The Organist; Hippocampus (Woodwinds 5).

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Lars Jansson Trio: Koan

by Chris Mosey
November 26, 2012

A koan is a Zen Buddhist riddle that cannot be solved by the intellect alone. The best known, portrayed on the cover of Lars Jansson Trio's Koan, is “What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The koan has been described as a form of spiritual dynamite that can propel the mind into satori, or “spiritual ...

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Lars Jansson Trio: Koan

by James Pearse
November 8, 2012

The second Lars Jansson Trio recording of 2012, after the outing with Ensemble MidtVest on Worship Of Self (Prophone, 2012), is a deep and reflective one. Koan not only remembers the victims of the 2011 tsunami, but also pays homage to the people of Japan and their unique culture.Lars Jansson Trio is something of ...

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Lars Jansson Trio with Ensemble MidtVest: Worship Of Self

Read "Worship Of Self" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
January 16, 2012

Pianist Lars Jansson's music is beyond category. Its roots are in jazz but, especially on Worship Of Self, it also embraces the Western classical tradition, bringing to mind the genius of Leonard Bernstein. Jansson hails from Sweden's second city, Gothenburg, but frequently visits Japan with his trio and is a self-proclaimed Zen Buddhist, ...

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In Search of Lost Time

By Lars Jansson

Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: There Is A Butterfly In My Room, At-one-ment; Midsummer; Siljan Waltz; In Search Of Lost Time; Simple Song Simple Life; One Hand Clapping; Fisherman; God's Delays Are Not God's Denials; A Rare Italian Bird; Where Is The Blues 4; Gods Who Shit; New Room; Hilda.

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Lars Jansson Trio: In Search of Lost Time

Read "In Search of Lost Time" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
July 13, 2011

Pianist Lars Jansson recently cleared out the music room of his home in Gothenburg, on Sweden's west coast, and in the process, found some old songs he'd written but forgotten. Inspired by Marcel Proust's epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, he put them together with some new ones to create an album that sheds ...

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What's New

By Lars Jansson

Label: The ACT Company
Released: 2010

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Artist´s Dreams

By Lars Jansson

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Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. Lucky Star (Carlo Bernardinello) - 4.01; 2. Romantic (Carlo Bernardinello) - 5:39; 3. Piccola Italy (Gorni Kramer) - 4:43; 4. T'ho voluto bene (Gino Redi); 5. Giving Receiving (Lars Jansson) - 4:32; 6. Angelus (Lars Jansson) - 5:56; 7. Il sogno di Gioia (Fabio De March) - 5:44; 8. Tu si 'na cosa grande (Domenico Modugno) - 5:09; 9. Tintarella di luna (Bruno De Filippi) - 4:43; 10. Pari e dispari (Carlo Bernardinello) - 2;54.

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Arild Andersen: Green Into Blue - Early Quartets

by John Kelman
May 18, 2010

He's one of Norway's “Big Four"—a group of artists who, with the assistance of the emerging ECM label in the early 1970s, kick-started international focus on the music from a country that, despite its relatively small population, has become a truly vital force in the evolution of jazz over the past 40 years. Alongside saxophonist Jan ...

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Carlo Bernardinello: Artist´s Dreams

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2010

Il jazz ha avuto tanti cambiamenti di stile legati ai tempi ed ai luoghi in cui i musicisti si sono trovati ad operare. Basta mettere a confronto, tanto per fare un esempio 'classico,' la nevrosi urbana dei bopper newyorchesi con l'approccio rilassato dei musicisti West Coast. Era così in quel periodo storico come adesso. Prendiamo il ...