Imogena, Spice of Life

Major

Jazz, Acoustic, Classical

Lars Jansson was born in Örebro, Sweden. In his early teens, a relative lent him some jazzrecords that got him interested in jazz. During the 1960s, he followed the fashion and developed an interest in the organ and got a B-3 Hammond.
In 1970, after graduation from upper secondary school he moved to Göteborg and started studying at the dental school, but after a year and a half he decided to switch to music. He was accepted at the Göteborg College of Music. That gave him the opportunity to play with all the good musician in Göteborg.

Lars became a member of different groups like;
Arild Andersen Quartet. Radka Toneff.
Björn Alke's quartet, Egba, Hawk On Flight, Equinox, Red Mitchell, Tolvan Bigband,
Jukkis Uotila with Bob Berg and Mike Stern, Ulf Wakenius, Bohuslän Bigband and others.
Danish musicians like Caecile Norby, Hans Ulrik, Klyvers Bigband.
Member of The Jan Garbarek Group in 1987.

Today, the Lars Jansson trio is, and has long been, one of the most well-renowned jazz groups in Sweden. Originally, the other two members were Anders Jormin and Anders Kjellberg. Lars Danielsson succeeded Jormin as the trio's bass player in the mid-1980s, and since January 2005 he has been succeeded by Christian Spering.

Lars was nominated to the Danish Jazzparprize in 1998.
He became the first jazzprofessor in Aahus, Denmark 1998.
Grammy 2001 in Denmark, ”best internationall album” Hope, Lars Jansson Trio.

Lars has composed music for small jazzgroup, bigband (3 cds with Bohuslän Bigband), strings, choire, saxofon quartet, woodwind quintet, symphony orchestra.

"Jazz music is one of the few human activities that succeedes in combining responsibility for the collective with individual freedom. The great challenge for every musician is to find his personal sound, to express his true self and at the same time find his role in the group. In our search for self knowledge, finding meaning in our lives and to full fill our destiny, jazz music is a fantastic art form to help us on that path." Lars Jansson

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)

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)

You can download my music from iTunes and buy cds from Imogena.se