Jan Johansson

Although not well known in the U.S., Jan Johansson was among Sweden's top jazz pianists of the 1950s and 1960s 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 ...more