Lars Ivar Edegran (born 1944) is a

Dixieland Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band ...

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...

musician and bandleader from Sweden. He most often plays

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

, or

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

but has also played

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, clarinet, and

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

. Edegran was born in Stockholm, Sweden and played in New Orleans style groups in Sweden before moving to New Orleans in 1966. He played with many older and younger New Orleans musicians. Edegran founded and is the leader of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra. He has toured and recorded extensively. He has also performed in

Preservation Hall Preservation Hall is a jazz venue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building is associated with a house band, a record label, and a non-profit foundation. History of the jazz hall In the 1950s, art dealer Larry Borenstein ...

and in the Norwegian Seamen's Church in New Orleans. His theatrical arrangements include the music for the show ''One Mo' Time''.

Discography

As leader

* ''New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra'' (

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, 1971) * ''A Recital at Old Fireman's Hall, Westwego, Louisiana'' (

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, 1976) * ''Pickles and Peppers'' (

Stomp Off Stomp Off is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1980 by Bob Erdos in York, Pennsylvania. The label's first release was ''Feelin' Devilish'' by Waldo's Gutbucket Serenaders. It was described in 1986 as concentrating on "jazz in t ...

, 1991) * ''Creole Belles'' (Arhoolie, 1994) * ''Lars Edegran Presents Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux'' ( G.H.B., 1998) * ''Lars Edegran and His New Orleans All Stars'' (G.H.B., 2000) * ''Palm Court Jazz All Stars'' (G.H.B., 2004) * ''Lars Edegran Presents Uncle Lionel'' (G.H.B., 2005) * ''Sweet Hot and Lowdown'' (G.H.B., 2005) * ''Triolian String Band'' (G.H.B., 2011)

As sideman

With

Percy Humphrey Percy Gaston Humphrey (January 13, 1905 – July 22, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition to his band, Percy Humphrey and His Crescent City Joymakers, for more than thirty years he was leade ...

* ''Percy Humphrey and His Crescent City Joymakers'' (G.H.B., 1966) * ''New Orleans to Scandinavia'' (Storyville, 1972) * ''A Portrait of Percy Humphrey'' (Storyville, 1972) * ''Percy Humphrey's Hot Six'' (CSA, 1975) With others *

Geoff Bull Geoffrey Randolph Bull (born 26 May 1942, Sydney) is an Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Bull played with the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band in 1961, then formed his own group, the Olympia Jazz Band, in Sydney; his sidemen included gu ...

, ''The Last Reunion'' (La Brava Music, 1997) *

Lionel Ferbos Lionel Charles Ferbos (July 17, 1911 – July 19, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was from New Orleans, Louisiana. At 103, Ferbos was the oldest jazz musician in New Orleans. A native New Orleanian whose career centered almost exclusive ...

, ''Lionel Ferbos with Lars Edegran's New Orleans Band'' (G.H.B., 1995) * Earl Hines, ''Earl Hines in New Orleans'' (Sonet, 1975) *

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, ''Native Son'' (Alma, 2013) *

Barry Martyn Barry Martyn (born Barry Martyn Godfrey, February 23, 1941, in London) is an English jazz drummer, active principally on the New Orleans jazz revival circuit. Martyn began on drums in 1955, and was leading his first band the following year. His f ...

, ''Back to New Orleans'' (Rhythm) *

De De Pierce Joseph De Lacroix "De De" Pierce (February 18, 1904 – November 23, 1973) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. He is best remembered for the songs "Peanut Vendor" and "Dippermouth Blues", both with Billie Pierce. Biography Pierce wa ...

, ''De De Pierce and His New Orleans Stompers'' (Center, 1966) *

Preservation Hall Jazz Band The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a New Orleans jazz band founded in New Orleans by tuba player Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s. The band derives its name from Preservation Hall in the French Quarter. In 2005, the Hall's doors were closed for a ...

, ''Preservation Hall Jazz Band Live!'' (Sony Masterworks, 1992) *

Jabbo Smith Jabbo Smith (born Cladys Smith; December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. Biography Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia, United States. At the age of six he went into ...

, ''Jabbo!'' (Memories 1982) *

Kid Thomas Valentine Kid Thomas (1896–1987), born Thomas Valentine, was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. In the early 1920s, he gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man. S ...

, ''Algiers Strut'' (Sonet, 1974) * '' Pretty Baby (soundtrack)'' (ABC Records, 1978) * Kid Thomas Valentine, ''Kid Thomas & Earl Humphrey with Orange Kellin's New Orleans Joymakers'' (G.H.B., 1996) *

Chris Tyle Christopher D. Tyle (born 10 May 1955) is dixieland jazz musician who performs on cornet, trumpet, clarinet and drums. Career Tyle grew up in a musical family. His father, Axel Tyle (1912–1981), was a jazz drummer and member of the Portland, O ...

, ''The Smiler'' (Stomp Off, 1993)

References

* ''New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album'' by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon {{DEFAULTSORT:Edegran, Lars 1944 births Musicians from Stockholm Living people Swedish emigrants to the United States 20th-century American guitarists Dixieland banjoists Dixieland pianists Dixieland guitarists Preservation Hall Jazz Band members