Jan Lundgren
- January 5, 2024
- Pianist
Quick Facts
Jan Lundgren Biography
| Name | Jan Lundgren |
| Birthday | Mar 22 |
| Birth Year | 1966 |
| Place Of Birth | Olofström |
| Home Town | Blekinge |
| Birth Country | Sweden |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Jan Lundgren is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on March 22, 1966 in Olofström, Blekinge, Sweden. He gained fame for his solo and jazz trio work. He was regarded as one of the most versatile, interesting, and curious musicians of his time.
He considered greats such as Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell to be his inspirations.
Lundgren was raised in Ronneby in the south of Sweden. He began learning the piano at the age of five, and moved to Malmö in 1986 to study at the Academy of Music. He graduated in 1991 and later became a lecturer at the Academy. Lundgren has been based in Ystad, on Sweden’s southern coast, since 2005.
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 [aka 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 [solo 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 [solo 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 [solo piano] (Fresh Sound)
2014 – Quietly There with Harry Allen (Stunt)
2015 – A Retrospective [compilation] (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)
His family was aware of his talents from an early age, and he started studying piano at the age of five.
Jan Lundgren Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Pianist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jan Lundgren is one of the richest Pianist from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jan Lundgren 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
From 1986 to 1991, he studied five years at the Malmo College of Music.
For his 1997 Swedish Standards, he won the Golden Record Award as best jazz recording.
Jan Lundgren (born 1966) is a Swedish jazz pianist and composer.
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In his review of Lundgren’s 2013 solo album Man In The Fog, Michael Tucker of Jazz Journal cites two tracks as “…delicious examples of this wide-ranging pianist’s clarity of ideas and phrasing and simultaneous delicacy and purposiveness of touch.”
Facts & Trivia
Jan Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Jan Lundgren celebrates birthday on March 22 of every year.
In a September 2014 interview with Lundgren published by Marc Myers on his influential 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.”