JAN JOHANSSON
Hard Bop • Sweden
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Although not well known in the U.S., Jan Johansson was among Sweden's top jazz pianists of the 1950s and '60s and commanded tremendous respect in Scandinavian jazz circles. Johansson (who also played guitar, organ, and accordion) was born and raised in Soderhamn in Sweden's Halsingland province, where he studied classical piano as a child before becoming interested in swing and bebop as a teenager. As a high school student in the late '40s, he played locally with various Soderhamn swing and dance bands, including Gerhard's Orchestra, the Five Swingers, and the sextet of the Benny Goodman-influenced clarinetist Gunnar Hammarlund. After serving in the military, he moved to Goteborg (Sweden's second-largest city) in the early '50s and went on to be employed as a sideman on sessions by big-band leader Kenneth Fagerlund in 1954-1955, and bassist Gunnar Johnson in the mid- to late '50s. Johansson's first sessions as a leader came
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8 Bitar
Hard Bop
1961
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Hard Bop
1972
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Blues
Hard Bop
1997
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Piano
Hard Bop
2007
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