Why Does Rain Fall Lars Jansson & Erik Söderlind

• 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

Pianist Lars Jansson and guitarist Erik Söderlind have over the years developed an intuitive interplay and a shared melodic language where various “musical moments” have now culminated in thirteen original compositions that form a cohesive whole. The full spectrum is here: from hard-swinging bebop to romance and melancholy.

Those who have followed both Lars and Erik Söderlind over the years can also note that Lars Jansson has to some extent taken over the mentor role that the legendary Kjell Öhman previously held for Erik Söderlind. At the same time, Erik Söderlind himself has in recent years become both a mentor and role model for many young jazz musicians. This also seems to have led to a more mature and contemplative tone in his previously so acclaimed guitar playing.

“Jazz Professor” Lars Jansson has long been a significant educator who moves confidently on the international jazz scene and has, among other things, a large audience in Japan. In 2022, he was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's Grand Prize for Jazz for his contributions.

Erik Söderlind, guitar
Lars Jansson, piano
Paul Svanberg, drums
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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