Jan Lundgren (born 22 March 1966) is an internationally active Swedish jazz musician. He is a pianist, composer, and senior lecturer at the

Malmö Academy of Music Malmö Academy of Music ( Swedish: Musikhögskolan i Malmö) is a Swedish public college dedicated to education and research within the fields of music and music pedagogy. The school is located in Malmö in southern Sweden and belongs to the Facu ...

, where he has taught since autumn 1991, as well as the artistic director of the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, Ystad Winter Piano Fest and

Jazzhus Montmartre Jazzhus Montmartre is a jazz club in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Many jazz musicians, including Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, and Chet Baker, have performed there. It is sometimes called Cafe Montmartre. The Montmartre was located first in Dahler ...

in Copenhagen. He is a

Steinway Artist Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth le ...

and has won many awards. He tours internationally and is signed to the German record label, ACT.

Biography

Lundgren was born in

Olofström Olofström, previously Holje by, is a urban areas of Sweden, locality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 7,327 inhabitants in 2010. in 1967, the market town of Olofström was merged with the villages Kyrkhult and Jämshög to create Olofström Munici ...

, Blekinge County, and grew up in Ronneby in the south of Sweden. He started to play the piano at the age of five, and decided in his late teens to become a professional musician. After graduating from the

in 1991, he began to establish himself as a musician on the Swedish jazz scene. Initially, he was often a sideman in various contexts and styles, and collaborated with many well-known artists in Sweden. As his own career took off, he focused on working as a soloist and developing artistic collaborations. Early in his career, he played with Swedish jazz musicians such as

Arne Domnérus Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Career He began to play the clarinet at the age of 11 but had taken up the saxophone by the time he left school and then turned profession ...

Putte Wickman Hans Olof "Putte" Wickman (10 September 1924 – 14 February 2006) was a Swedish jazz clarinetist. Career Born Hans Olof Wickman in Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabit ...

and

Rune Gustafsson Rune Urban Gustafsson (25 August 1933 – 15 June 2012) was a Swedish jazz guitarist and composer. He performed with Arne Domnérus, Jan Johansson, and Zoot Sims among others. Life and career Rune Gustafsson was born in 1933 in Gothenburg. H ...

and through that gained an invaluable grounding in the Swedish jazz tradition. It was Arne Domnérus who discovered Lundgren. Lungren's international career began in the mid-1990s, when the first album under his own name, ''Conclusion'', released in 1994, was launched in Europe, North America and Japan. His first contacts with the American jazz scene developed via the saxophonist

Herb Geller Herbert Arnold Geller (November 2, 1928 – December 19, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was born in Los Angeles. Early life His mother, Frances ''(née'' Frances Mildred Fullman, also known as Fannie Fullman; ...

into regular collaborations with Dick Bank, a producer for

Fresh Sound Records Fresh Sound, or Fresh Sound New Talent, is a jazz record label established in Barcelona, Spain, by Jordi Pujol. The label was initially founded as a reissue label. The catalog includes work by musicians both major and minor that was recorded be ...

. In 1995, he formed the Jan Lundgren Trio with bassist Mattias Svensson and drummer Rasmus Kihlberg. The trio's breakthrough came through the album ''Swedish Standards'' in 1997, which won ''Orkesterjournalen''s Gyllene skivan award for the Year's Best Jazz Album. In 2000, Lundgren became the first Scandinavian jazz pianist to play at

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhattan), 57t ...

in New York City when the trio took part in the concert "Swedish Jazz Salutes the USA". During the 2000s, his international career continued to progress, and his artistic development broadened and deepened. In the first decade, Lundgren placed great emphasis on his trio. Subsequently, he has been involved in several other constellations and made space for his own composing. Throughout his career, he has sought out and initiated artistic collaborations. This has led to projects with leading artists, both in the studio and in concert. These include ''Mare Nostrum'' with

Paolo Fresu Paolo Fresu (; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. His unique trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene. Fresu pla ...

and

Richard Galliano Richard Galliano (born 12 December 1950, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French accordionist of Italian heritage. Allmusic biography/ref> Biography He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father ...

, ''Magnum Mysterium'' with Gustaf Sjökvist's chamber choir and

Lars Danielsson Lars Danielsson (born 5 September 1958) is a Swedish jazz bassist, composer, and record producer. Biography Danielsson was born in Smålandsstenar, and was educated at the music conservatory in Gothenburg. He plays double bass, electric bass ...

, ''Jan Lundgren Trio'' with Mattias Svensson and Zoltán Csörsz, ''Jazz på svenskt vis'' with the Jan Lundgren Trio & Göteborg Wind Orchestra, ''Potsdamer Quartet'' with Jukka Perko,

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and Morten Lund, ''A Tribute to Jan Johansson'' with Mattias Svensson and a string quartet, ''Kristallen'' with Nils Landgren and ''Into the Night'' with

and

Émile Parisien Émile Parisien (born 12 October 1982) is a French soprano and alto saxophonist, jazz musician, and composer. Career Émile Parisien entered the fifth class at the age of 11 in the first class of Marciac's ''College de jazz'', where he studie ...

. Lundgren resides in

Ystad Ystad () is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates from the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre, and tourist attracti ...

since 2005.

Collaborations

Collaborations initiated before 2000

''Swedish artists and musicians'' Jazz: Karl-Martin Almqvist,

Peter Asplund Peter Asplund (born 26 September 1969) is a jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer. Asplund studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has recorded several solo albums and participated as solo artist on records with other artists, such a ...

, Hans Backenroth, Anders Bergcrantz,

, Lars Erstrand,

, Rasmus Kihlberg, Gunnar "Siljabloo" Nilsson, Mattias Svensson,

Viktoria Tolstoy Louise Viktoria Tolstoy (born 29 July 1974) is a Swedish jazz singer of Russian ancestry. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which cor ...

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. Popular music:

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. ''International artists and musicians'' Eric Alexander, Joe Ascione,

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, Deborah Brown,

Conte Candoli Secondo "Conte" Candoli (July 12, 1927 – December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orc ...

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, Paul Kreibich,

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, Bill Perkins,

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Collaborations initiated after 2000

''Swedish artists and musicians'' Jazz: Miriam Aida, Hans Backenroth,

, Ronnie Gardiner,

Bengt Hallberg Bengt Hallberg (13 September 1932 – 2 July 2013) was a Swedish jazz pianist, composer and arranger.John Fordha"Bengt Hallberg obituary" theguardian.com, 7 August 2013 Born in Gothenburg, he studied classical piano from an early age, and wro ...

, Nils Landgren, Klas Lindquist, Carin Lundin, Georg Riedel, Zoltán Csörsz, Hannah Svensson, Ewan Svensson, Jojje Wadenius. World music: Bengan Janson,

Filip Jers Filip Jers (born November 7, 1986, in south of Sweden) is a Swedish harmonica player and composer. Filip Jers gained recognition after winning the World Harmonica Festival in Trossingen (2005). He received the 2003 Musik Direkt jazzprize, 2003 ...

Ale Möller Arild Staffan Möller (born 26 March 1955), known professionally as Ale Möller, is a Swedish musician and composer. He was born and grew up in Scania in southern Sweden and started in music as a jazz trumpeter. He lived for a while in Greece wh ...

. Classical music:

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, Gustaf Sjökvist,

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. Popular musik:

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, Göran Fristorp, LaGaylia Frazier, Hayati Kafe,

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, Edda Magnason,

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. ''Swedish writers and actors''

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, Jacques Werup. ''International artists and musicians'' Harry Allen,

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, Nico Gori,

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, Scott Hamilton,

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, Morten Lund,

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, James Moody,

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, Jukka Perko, Yosuke Sato,

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, Tom Warrington, Kenny Washington.

Steinway Artist

In 2007, Jan Lundgren became the first Scandinavian jazz pianist to be named as a

by the famous piano company

Steinway & Sons Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth le ...

. The renowned company was founded in New York by

Henry E. Steinway Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, anglicized name Henry Engelhard Steinway, (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871)B ...

in 1853.

Critical reaction

Mark Gilbert of ''Jazz Journal'' has made the following observation of Lundgren: "He

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as a classically trained pianist and the practice is unmistakable in the pinpoint precision, lucid articulation, unerring melodic sense and apparently effortless range that characterise his piano playing; he quickly creates a sense of musical security and trust." Commenting on Lundgren's 2011 album ''Together Again ...At The Jazz Bakery'', US jazz critic Doug Ramsey wrote: "Mr. Lundgren's clarity of execution matches the clarity of his ideas. He is at the top of his game in all of the elements of jazz pianism: touch, dynamics, harmonic imagination, swing, power and delicacy". In his review of Lundgren's 2013 solo album ''Man in the Fog'', ''Jazz Journal'' critic Michael Tucker cited two tracks as "delicious examples of this wide-ranging pianist’s clarity of ideas and phrasing and simultaneous delicacy and purposiveness of touch." In a September 2014 interview with Lundgren published by

Marc Myers Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to ''The Wall Street Journal'', where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities. In 2007, he founded ''JazzWax'', a leading daily jaz ...

on his ''JazzWax'' blog, Myers said of the Trio's ''Flowers of Sendai'' album: "There’s enormous beauty here in chord voicings and how they resolve. It's impossible not to be moved by the delicacy and beauty."

Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival

Jan Lundgren is the Artistic Director of the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, an annual jazz festival held in late July-early August. The festival was founded in 2010 by Jan Lundgren and Thomas Lantz. Artists who have performed at the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival include:

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, Anders Bergcrantz,

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Richard Bona Richard Bona (born 28 October 1967) is a Cameroon-born American multi-instrumentalist and singer. Early life Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo was born in Minta, Cameroon, into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a ...

, Fabrizio Bosso,

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, Deborah Brown, Vivian Buczek,

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, Lily Dahab,

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, Elina Duni,

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, Benny Green, Rigmor Gustafsson,

, Scott Hamilton,

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, Hiromi,

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, Bob James, Lars Jansson, Nicole Johänntgen,

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, Goran Kajfes, Jacob Karlzon, Omer Klein,

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, Nils Landgren, Charles Lloyd,

Joe Lovano Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 13. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1994. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, May 5, 2017. is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. T ...

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, Joyce Moreno,

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. The Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival was awarded the Ystad Municipality Culture Prize in 2021. Earlier the same year, the national association, Swedish Jazz, named Ystad Municipality as the Jazz Municipality of the Year.

Ystad Winter Piano Fest

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, Jacob Karlzon, Jan Lundgren, Marialy Pacheco, Iiro Rantala and Johanna Summer.

Jazzhus Montmartre

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and

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have played there.

Awards and honors

* 1993: Thore Swanerud Scholarship. * 1994: Harry Arnold Scholarship. * 1994: Radio Sweden's prize Jazzkatten in the Jazz Musician of the Year category. * 1995: Topsys tusenkrona – Nalen Foundation. * 1995: City of Malmö Culture Scholarship. * 1998: Orkesterjournalen's prize Gyllene skivan for Swedish Standards (released 1997). * 2000: Jan Johansson Scholarship. * 2008: Django d'Or Contemporary Star of Jazz. * 2010: Thore Ehrling Scholarship. * 2010: Region Blekinge Culture Prize. * 2012: Region Skåne Culture Prize. * 2013:

Jazz Journal ''Jazz Journal'' is a British jazz magazine established in 1946 by Sinclair Traill (1904–1981). It was first published in London under the title ''Pick Up'', which Traill founded as a locus for serious jazz criticism in Britain.Roberta Freund S ...

– Jazz Record of the Year – Critics' Poll for Together Again at the Jazz Bakery (released 2012). * 2013: Ystad Municipality Culture Prize. * 2015:

– Jazz Record of the Year – Critics' Poll for All by Myself (released 2014). * 2019: Ellen & Svend Asmussen Award. * 2020: Danish-Swedish Culture Fund Prize. * 2023: Guldnålen, award given once a year by Jazz i Malmö.

Compositions

Published sheet music

The Jan Lundgren Collection (Hal Leonard/Bosworth Edition/ACT), published in 2021, contains 20 original compositions by Jan Lundgren: 1. Blekinge 2. Blue Silence 3. Dance of Masja 4. Farväl 5. Leklåt 6. Love in Return 7. Love Land 8. Lycklig resa 9. The Magic Stroll 10. Mare Nostrum 11. Never Too Late 12. No. 9 13. On the Banks of the Seine 14. Open Your Mind 15. The Poet 16. Potsdamer Platz 17. Ronneby 18. The Seagull 19. Song for Jörgen 20. Years Ahead

Selected compositions

* A Dog Named Jazze (album: Into the Night, ACT, 2021) * A Touch of You (album: A Touch of You, Alfa, 2003) * Almas Vaggvisa (album: I Love Jan Lundgren Trio, Figaro Music, 2014) * Bird of Passage (album: Bird of Passage, Four Leaf Clover, 1995) * Blekinge (album: Kristallen, ACT, 2020) * Blue Silence (album: Mare Nostrum II, ACT, 2016) * Bullet Train (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Conclusion (album: Conclusion, Four Leaf Clover, 1994) * Dance of Masja (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Farväl (album: Mare Nostrum II, ACT, 2016) * Flowers of Sendai (album: Flowers of Sendai, Bee Jazz, 2014) * Hidden Truth (album: I Love Jan Lundgren Trio, Figaro Music, 2014) * I Do (album: Into the Night, ACT, 2021) * Into the Night (album: Into the Night, ACT, 2021) * Leklåt (album: Mare Nostrum II, ACT, 2016) * Love in Return (Mare Nostrum III, ACT, 2019) * Love Land (album: Bengan Janson–Jan Lundgren–Ulf Wakenius, Ladybird, 2011; Mare Nostrum III, ACT, 2019) * Lycklig resa (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Man in the Fog (album: Man in the Fog, Bee Jazz, 2013) * Mare Nostrum (album: Mare Nostrum, ACT, 2007) * M.Z. (album: Lockrop, Gemini Records, 2006) * Never Too Late (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * No. 9 (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * On the Banks of the Seine (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Open Your Mind (album: Mare Nostrum, ACT, 2007) * Parfait Amour (album: Flowers of Sendai, Bee Jazz, 2014) * Potsdamer Platz (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Ronneby (Mare Nostrum III, ACT, 2019) * Second Time First (album: We Will Always Be Together, Gazell, 2004) * Short Life (album: Conclusion, Four Leaf Clover, 1994) * Song for Jörgen (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * Stenhuggarens visa (album: Lockrop, Gemini, 2006) * The Expatriate (album: For Listeners Only, Sittel, 2001) * The Longest Night (album: Back 2 Back, Volenza, 2011) * The Magic Stroll (album: Mare Nostrum III, ACT, 2019) * The Poet (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * The Seagull (album: Mare Nostrum, ACT, 2007) * Time to Leave Again (album: For Listeners Only, Sittel, 2001) * Twelve Tone Rag (album: Potsdamer Platz, ACT, 2017) * View of P (album: Man in the Fog, Bee Jazz, 2013) * Years Ahead (album: Mare Nostrum, ACT, 2007)

Discography

* 1994 – ''Conclusion'' (Four Leaf Clover) * 1994 – ''Stockholm-Get-Together'' (Fresh Sound) * 1995 – ''New York Calling'' (Alfa) * 1996 – ''Bird of Passage'' (Four Leaf Clover) * 1996 – ''California Connection'' (Fresh Sound-Four Leaf Clover) * 1996 – ''Cooking! At the Jazz Bakery'' (Fresh Sound) * 1997 – ''Swedish Standards'' (Sittel, re-released by ACT, 2009) * 1998 – ''A Touch of You'' (Alfa) * 1999 – ''Something to Live For'' (Sittel) * 2000 – ''For Listeners Only'' (Sittel) * 2001 – ''Jan Lundgren Trio Plays the Music of Victor Young'' (Sittel) * 2001 – ''Lonely One'' (Marshmallow) * 2001 – ''Collaboration'' with Pete Jolly (Fresh Sound) * 2001 – ''Presents Miriam Aida & Fredrik Kronkvist'' (Sittel) * 2002 – ''Charade'' (Marshmallow) * 2002 – ''Jan Lundgren Trio Plays the Music of Jule Styne'' (Sittel) * 2003 – ''Perfidia'' (Marshmallow) * 2003 – ''Svenska landskap'' ka ''Landscapes''(Sittel) * 2003 – ''Blue Lights'' (Marshmallow) * 2003 – ''Celebrating the Music of Matt Dennis'' (Fresh Sound) * 2004 – ''Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'' (Marshmallow) * 2004 – ''En sommarkonsert'' (with Putte Wickman and Göran Fristorp) * 2004 – ''We Will Always Be Together'' with Putte Wickman (Gazell) * 2005 – ''In New York'' (Marshmallow) * 2005 – ''An Intimate Salute to Frankie'' with Putte Wickman (Gazell) * 2006 – ''Lockrop'' with Georg Riedel (Gemini) * 2006 – ''Plays Cole Porter Love Songs'' (Marshmallow) * 2006 – ''History of Piano Jazz'' olo piano(Fagerdala Event) * 2006 – ''How About You'' with Andy Martin (Fresh Sound) * 2007 – ''A Swinging Rendezvous'' (Marshmallow) * 2007 – ''Mare Nostrum'' with Paolo Fresu & Richard Galliano (ACT) * 2007 – ''Magnum Mysterium'' (ACT) * 2008 – ''Soft Summer Breeze'' (Marshmallow) * 2009 – ''European Standards'' with Mattias Svensson & Zoltan Csörsz Jr (ACT) * 2009 – ''Jul på Svenska'' with Georg Wadenius & Arild Andersen (EMI) * 2010 – ''Too Darn Hot'' (Volenza) * 2011 – ''Back 2 Back'' with Bengt Hallberg (Volenza) * 2011 – ''Together Again ...At The Jazz Bakery'' with Chuck Berghofer & Joe La Barbera (Fresh Sound)> * 2012 – ''Until It's Time'' with LaGaylia Frazier (Prophone) * 2013 – ''Man in the Fog'' olo piano(Bee Jazz) * 2013 – ''Jul på Norska'' with Georg Wadenius & Arild Andersen (EMI) * 2013 – ''I Love Jan Lundgren Trio'' with Mattias Svensson & Zoltan Csörsz Jr (Figaro) * 2014 – ''Flowers of Sendai'' with Mattias Svensson & Zoltan Csörsz Jr (Bee Jazz) * 2014 – ''All By Myself'' olo piano(Fresh Sound) * 2014 – ''Quietly There'' with Harry Allen (Stunt) * 2015 – ''A Retrospective'' ompilation(Fresh Sound) * 2016 – ''The Ystad Concert: A Tribute to Jan Johansson'' with Mattias Svensson & Bonfiglioli Weber String Quartet (ACT) * 2016 – ''Mare Nostrum II'' with Paolo Fresu & Richard Galliano (ACT) * 2017 – ''Potsdamer Platz'' (ACT) * 2019 – ''Mare Nostrum III'' with Paolo Fresu & Richard Galliano (ACT) * 2020 – ''Kristallen'' with Nils Landgren (ACT) * 2021 – ''Into the Night'' with Lars Danielsson & Émile Parisien (ACT) * 2022 – ''Jazz Poetry'' with Hans Backenroth (ACT) Jan Lundgren Discography compiled by Gerard Bielderman, Eurojazz Discos No. 191.

References

External links

Official website

Friends of Jan Lundgren
(fan club)
Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival
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