Jan Strinnholm

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Jan Strinnholm (born January 1, 1936 , † July 29, 2014 in Nordingrå ) was a Swedish jazz pianist and composer .

Live and act

Strinnholm played bebop when he was at school when he attended school in Sollefteå and high school in Härnösand . He then studied in Uppsala , where he obtained his doctorate in cultural geography in 1974 on "Goods transport in the air" . In the following years he worked in the local jazz scene a. a. with the Fyris Jazz Band (Album Sidewalk Blues , 1978) and with the singer Mette Rongved, with whom he also in Norway and Poland toured the duo albums Listen min sång and Höstsommar presented and appearances in the radio broadcasts of Sveriges Radio had . He also recorded several solo albums with his own compositions and played with Stig Johansson, Jan Allan , Arne Domnérus , Georg Riedel and Red Mitchell , and in later years with the South African singer Sani Gamedze. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 12 recording sessions between 1977 and 1998. Strinnholm died in late July 2014 at the age of 78.

Discographic notes

  • Jan Strinnholm / Mette Rongved: Höstsommar (Coop, 1977)
  • Gryning (Coop, 1981) solo
  • Itinerancy (Coop, 1982)
  • Dick Gyllander / Jan Strinnholm: Bluesette (PHM Records, 1986)
  • Why Do You Play so Long? ( Dragon Records , 1986)
  • 95 (Sittel, 1995)
  • Jan Allan, Jan Strinnholm: (Jan) Exp 2 (JAM Production, 1996)
  • The Idea of ​​Flying (Sittel, 2011)

Fonts

  • Varutransporter med flyg. Flygfraktstudier med empirisk belysning av flygfrakt i Sverige, utrikeshandel including flygfrakt över Arlanten . = Geografiska Regionstudier 11 (1974)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Strinnholm's date of birth at Classics Online ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.classicsonline.com
  2. ↑ a b c obituary (Swedish)
  3. ^ Obituary in Orkester journals
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 3, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Strinnholm, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1936
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2014
Place of death Nordingrå