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Lars Jansson

"Mindfulness is a way to personal transformation"

About Me

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
"To disidentify from thinking is to be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior, especially the repetitive patterns of your mind and the roles played by the ego.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stilness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is fredom, salvation, enlightment." Eckart Tolle
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Member Since: 2/25/2007
Band Website: lars.jp
Band Members: Lars Jansson "Awakening part 1"

Add to My Profile | More Videos Lars Jansson MidtVest Ensemble The wounded healer

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Influences:
Sounds Like: Selected discografiArild 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)
Sinne Eeg Waiting for Dawn (Calibrated)
Ulf Wakenius Love is Real (Actmusic)

You can download my music from iTunes and buy cds from Imogena.se
More videos on Youtube
Look at www.Zorpia.com/Larsjansson
NEW CD Worship of Self, Spiece of Life records.
Record Label: Imogena records, Spice of Life
Type of Label: Major

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New CD Lars Jansson Trio

New CD "Worship of Self" Lars Jansson Trio Ensemble MidtVest. Music for Jazztrio, stringquartett and Woodwindquintett. Spice of Life records....
Posted by Lars Jansson on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:41:00 PST

Japan arigato.

I am just about to finish my 14th tour in Japan. Playing 15 concerts in 16 days with Yashuito Mori-bass and Anders Kjellberg-drums. The Japanese scene is fantastic. We play at small clubs. Usually a s...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:00:00 PST

Slow down

I have just been a week at our summerhouse in Bullaren. It is a small farm in the darkest and most quite woods. It is really a place for retreat. No big city noice, totaly peacfull. I have had time fo...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:29:00 PST

Great music, wine, book.

I have just finished three gigs, one with Equinox. A group with Tomas Frank-tenor, Håkan broström-sax, Daniel Frank-bass and my son Paul Svanberg-drums(some video-clips on the homepage) and two gigs w...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:07:00 PST

A dream and a wine of balance

Last night I dreamt that two older wise men where restoring this old churchbuilding in the middle of Copenhagen. Their plan was to make a beautiful house (tempel) that could work as church, artmuseum ...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:34:00 PST

Composition-Improvisation 2

It is a hard thing to combine composing and playing(improvising). Both activities take a lot of time and energy. I have written tunes as long as I have played jazz so it is kind of nautral for me. One...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:01:00 PST

Composition; a slow form of improvisation

About my new music for Harstad, Norway in sept. I am happy to get my dear friend Frode Thingnaes to conduct and help with the rehearsals. He did a great job with my piece "Authenticity" for the Kampen...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:28:00 PST

Midsummer at Rönnaby

Back home in Ljungskile after celebrating midsummer at Rönnaby outside Örebro with friends. Great evening with italien(!) food and wine, music soare´with opera arias, pianomusic and a lot of fun.I am ...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:53:00 PST

My first Blog, tour in Århus

This is my first try to use my blog. Came just back from three gigs with my son Paul and bass player Peter Vuust in Århus, Denmark. The concert at Strobel´s wine shop in Bedre was nice although it was...
Posted by Lars Jansson on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:00 PST