Why Does Rain Fall Lars Jansson & Erik Söderlind

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Album-Release:
2026

HRA-Release:
01.05.2026

Label: Prophone Records

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

Artist: Lars Jansson & Erik Söderlind

Composer: Lars Jansson (1951)

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  • 1 Iris 06:26
  • 2 Why Does Rain Fall 07:18
  • 3 Grandpa Funk 04:02
  • 4 Jazzmusikal 1B 05:11
  • 5 Stop Those Waterfalls 03:55
  • 6 Donna Andrade 03:59
  • 7 One Who Knows 06:37
  • 8 Les French Alps 06:23
  • 9 I am That 05:52
  • 10 The Gardener 05:54
  • 11 Grandpa Dancing on The Table 05:33
  • 12 Ravel 04:59
  • 13 Garden of Unknowing 05:04
  • Total Runtime 01:11:13

Info for Why Does Rain Fall

Der Pianist Lars Jansson und der Gitarrist Erik Söderlind haben im Laufe der Jahre eine gemeinsame melodische Sprache entwickelt, in der verschiedene 'musikalische Momente' nun in dreizehn Originalkompositionen kulminieren, die ein zusammenhängendes Ganzes bilden. Das gesamte Spektrum ist hier vertreten: vom hart swingenden Bebop bis hin zu Romantik und Melancholie. Wer sowohl Lars Jansson als auch Erik Söderlind über die Jahre hinweg verfolgt hat, kann auch feststellen, dass Lars Jansson in gewisser Weise die Mentorenrolle übernommen hat, die der legendare Kjell Ohman früher fur Erik Söderlind innehatte. Gleichzeitig ist Erik Söderlind selbst in den letzten Jahren zum Mentor und Vorbild für viele junge Jazzmusiker geworden. Dies scheint auch zu einem reiferen und kontemplativeren Ton in seinem früher so gefeierten Gitarrenspiel geführt zu haben. "Jazzprofessor" Lars Jansson ist langst ein bedeutender Pädagoge, der sich selbstbewusst in der internationalen Jazzszene bewegt und unter anderem in Japan ein großes Publikum hat. 2022 wurde er für seine Verdienste mit dem Großen Preis für Jazz der Königlich Schwedischen Musikakademie ausgezeichnet. Fast zwei Jahre nach dem ersten Album der Gruppe, "What The Moment Brings", ist der Nachfolger da. Schon nach wenigen Minuten stechen die schonen Kompositionen hervor, gespielt von dieser hervorragenden Gruppe von Musikern. Die beiden starken und lyrischen Leader werden durch die hervorragende Rhythmusgruppe von Niklas Fernqvist mit seinem eleganten Ton und Paul Svanberg mit seinem unbestreitbaren Swing ergänzt.

Erik Söderlind, Gitarre
Lars Jansson, Klavier
Paul Svanberg, Schlagzeug
Niklas Fernqvist, Bass




Erik Söderlind
Guitarist and composer Erik Söderlind is a musician who defines the modern Swedish jazz scene. Or as Mike Stern describe him “a phenomenon - with a unique way of playing and a very personal tone".

Erik Söderlind's trademark is his fingerstyle technique, based on his early classical training. Musically he can be described as an innovator rooted in the straight ahead-styles of swing, bebop and blues. His broad musical sensitivity and background has also taken him far beyond the jazz's domains. He has written music for, and toured, with some of Sweden's most popular singers such as Louise Hoffsten and Lisa Nilsson.

Erik Söderlind got his first guitar at the age of six and learned to play by spending hours trying to imitate blues icons like Eric Clapton and BB King. Later on he discovered jazz guitar giants like Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Grant Green and fell in love with the art of improvisation, an art form he himself soon learned to master with brilliance.

In 2015 Erik received The Guitar People Prize Sweden, an award given to the best guitar player in Sweden. The same year he released his third solo album "In The Moment" which features artists like Eric Alexander, Lisa Nilsson, Svante Thuresson and Dan Berglund, one of the members of Esbjörn Svensson Trio – EST. Over the last few years he's become increasingly better known internationally as well and has played with several of the most influential jazz guitarists in the world, like Frank Vignola and Peter Bernstein.

Lars Jansson
is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. His trio has long been one of the most renowned jazz groups in Sweden. In 1998, Lars was nominated to the Danish Jazzpar Prize and he became the first jazz professor in Aarhus, Denmark. He was honored in Denmark with a Grammy in 2001 for the ”Best International Album,” Hope, the Lars Jansson Trio. Other than jazz piano trio, Lars has composed music for small jazz groups, big bands, choirs, saxophone quartets, woodwind quintets, string quartets and chamber orchestra. The original music in this collection of selected piano transcriptions and lead sheets are from his numerous recordings to date with the Lars Jansson Trio.



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