Jan Johansson - Jazz - Swedish folk-style

Jan Johansson, piano.
Georg Riedel , bassist.

01 Visa Från Utanmyra.
02 Gånglek Från Älvdalen.
03 Polska Från Medelpad.
04 Polska Efter Höök Olle.
05 Gammal Bröllopsmarsch.

Jan Johansson began as a 11-year playing and studying classical piano, but was as a teenager attracted to swing and bebop, and soon appeared with a number of local swing and dance bands in his hometown of Södertälje. In the early 1950s he moved to Gothenburg to study engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Here he played alongside studies together with such orchestra leader Kenneth Fagerlund and bassist Gunnar Johnson's quintet.

Shortly before their studies are completed dropped his studies and began full time as a professional musician. He is the Swedish music magazine Orchestra journal reported that the pianist John Lewis of Modern Jazz Quartet was his musical role model and the direct reason that he dropped his studies.

In Gothenburg he met Stan Getz, who at that time lived in Copenhagen. Jan Johansson came with Stan Getz to Denmark, where he lived, and from 1958 to 1960 they appeared together on Jazzhus Montmartre. He met and played together with a number of prominent American jazz musicians, who in 1950 had made Copenhagen a metropolis of jazz music.

Jan Johansson became the first European jazz musician invited to USA to participate in Jazz at the Philharmonic. It was a series of concerts and recordings with the greatest jazz names that had taken place since 1944.

He was in 1957 married to Else Bergström with whom he had two sons, John and Donald, both of which are known rock musicians in Sweden today and has performed with guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen.

Jazz at svensk .Jan Johansson in 1961 moved back to Stockholm, where he lived until his death in 1968. In the early 1960s marked himself as one of Europe's most prominent jazz musicians. He was not limited just to the piano. He also played guitar, organ and accordion.

1960 and 1961 he received the Swedish jazz magazine Orchestra Journaling Lens price Gyllene Skiva for the year's best Swedish jazz releases, and in 1966 he received the third prize at the International Jazz Festivalu Prague.

It was in the early 1960s, Jan Johansson began to interpret the old Swedish folk songs. In 1964 he published and bassist Georg Riedel Jazz album in Swedish. He presented a melodic and subdued style of music with his unique touch on the piano, which helped give jazz a particularly melancholy mood.

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[jacksonbiscuit]

I love this album! Amazing how it sounds after 50 years.

[cmasax06]

This is great. I can definitely see how this influenced Opeth's opening track, Heritage. Thanks for the upload