Lars Jansson was born in Örebro, Sweden. In his early teens, a relative lent him some jazzrecords that got him interested in jazz. During the 1960s, he followed the fashion and developed an interest in the organ and got a B-3 Hammond. In 1970, after graduation from upper secondary school he moved to Göteborg and started studying at the dental school, but after a year and a half he decided to switch to music. He was accepted at the Göteborg College of Music. That gave him the opportunity to play with all the good musician in Göteborg.
Lars became a member of different groups like;
Arild Andersen Quartet. Radka Toneff.
Björn Alke's quartet, Egba, Hawk On Flight, Equinox, Red Mitchell, Tolvan Bigband, Jukkis Uotila with Bob Berg and Mike Stern, Ulf Wakenius, Bohuslän Bigband and others.
Danish musicians like Caecile Norby, Hans Ulrik, Klyvers Bigband.
Member of The Jan Garbarek Group in 1987.
Today, the Lars Jansson trio is, and has long been, one of the most well-renowned jazz groups in Sweden. Originally, the other two members were Anders Jormin and Anders Kjellberg. Lars Danielsson succeeded Jormin as the trio's bass player in the mid-1980s, and since January 2005 he has been succeeded by Christian Spering.
Lars was nominated to the Danish Jazzparprize in 1998.
He became the first jazzprofessor in Aahus, Denmark 1998.
Grammy 2001 in Denmark, ”best internationall album” Hope, Lars Jansson Trio.
Lars has composed music for small jazzgroup, bigband (3 cds with Bohuslän Bigband), strings, choire, saxofon quartet, woodwind quintet, symphony orchestra.
"Jazz music is one of the few human activities that succeedes in combining responsibility for the collective with individual freedom. The great challenge for every musician is to find his personal sound, to express his true self and at the same time find his role in the group. In our search for self knowledge, finding meaning in our lives and to full fill our destiny, jazz music is a fantastic art form to help us on that path." Lars Jansson
"To disidentify from thinking is to be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior, especially the repetitive patterns of your mind and the roles played by the ego. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stilness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is fredom, salvation, enlightment." Eckart Tolle
