Jan Johansson/Georg Riedel: In Hamburg – review

(ACT)Jan Johansson was the leading Swedish jazz pianist of his generation in 1950s and 60s until a car accident ended his life in 1968 at the age of 37, depriving European jazz of a powerful original voice in playing and composition. Ironically, Johansson died just as the ECM record label was being born – the two would almost certainly have found each other, since the Swede's interest in his homeland's folk music was as perceptive and inventive as his jazz-improv skills. In Hamburg is a compil...

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