Lars Edegran
Lars Edegran (* 1944 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish jazz musician ( guitar , banjo , piano , vocals , arrangement , bandleader ) who works in the United States and who is “one of the most important pianists involved in preserving New Orleans jazz ”.
Live and act
Edegran played in Stockholm in the early 1960s in the formation Salty Dogs , with whom the first recordings were made in 1962. In the following years he worked a. a. in Sweden with the Imperial Band before moving to the United States, where he worked in New Orleans with groups including Sylvester Handy's Band, Louis James Footwarmers , Dee Dee Pierce and His New Orleans Stompers, and with Percy Humphrey's Hot Six , as well as Kid Cola , Earl Humphrey / Andrew Jefferson , Orange Kellin , Harold Dejean , Joe Watkins , Tony Fougerat and Johnny Wiggs . He also worked in the jazz archive of Tulane University and founded the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra in 1967 on the basis of the recovered sheet music of the orchestra conductor John Robichaux , with which he made a guest appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival .
In the 1970s Edegran continued to play with Percy Humphrey and the New Orleans Joymakers, as well as with Kid Thomas Valentine , Louis Gallaud and Earl Hines ; with the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra in 1977 he worked on the soundtrack of Louis Male's film Pretty Baby . In the early 1980s he was a theater musician on New York Broadway in musicals and revues such as One Mo 'Time as a musician and arranger; he also toured Europe with the New Orleans Blue Serenaders .
In the following years he worked in New Orleans with his New Orleans Jazz Band (including Norbert Susemihl , Fred Lonzo , Orange Kellin, Pud Brown , Butch Thompson , Frank Fields , Ernest Elly ), and in the 1990s with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Sammy Rimington , Jacques Gauthé , Claude Luter , Doc Cheatham and Doc Houlind , as well as vocalists such as Thais Clark , Topsi Chapman , Lillian Boutté and Cookie Gabriel . From the 2000s he continued to work with his own formations such as the Palm Court Jazz All Stars or Lars Edegran & His Santa Claus Revelers , as well as with Joe Muranyi , Evan Christopher , Tommy Sancton and Wendell Eugene . In the field of jazz he was involved in 132 recording sessions from 1962 to 2015. He also appeared in the documentary One Note at a Time (2016, directed by Renee Edwards).
Discographic notes
- Shout Sister Shout: Edegran Orchestra and the New Orleans Jazz Ladies (GHB Records, 1990)
- Lars Edegran and His New Orleans All Stars (GHB, 1994)
- Lars Edegran Presents Lionel Ferbos & John Robichaux (GHB, 1999)
- A Program of New Orleans Jazz, Blues & Spirituals (GHB, 1999)
- Crescent City Christmas (GHB, 1999)
- Palm Court Jazz All Stars (GHB, 2004)
- Sweet Hot and Lowdown (GHB, 2005)
- Lars Edegran presents Uncle Lionel (GHB, 2005), with Lionel Batiste
- Triolian String Band (GHB, 2011)
- Hymns & Spirituals: Live at Trinity Church, New Orleans (2013)
Web links
- Lars Edegran at Allmusic (English)
- Lars Edegran at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lars Eedgran in the musician database of Radio Swiss Jazz ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cast Lionel Ferbos (tp), Paul Crawford (tb), Orange Kellin (cl), William Russell (from left), Lars Edegran (p), James Prevost (kb), Cie Frazier (d) and Louis Armstrong (announcer)
- ↑ Lars Edegran sweetens his sound with Cookie Gabriel at NOLA.com (1998)
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 11, 2017)
- ↑ Lars Edegran in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edegran, Lars |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish jazz musician, arranger and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |