Lars Danielsson is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 jazz

Jazz

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 bassist

Bassist

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, composer

Composer

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 and record producer

Record producer

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.

Biography

Lars Danielsson was educated at the Music Conservatory in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. He plays double bass

Double bass

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, electric bass

Electric Bass

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 and cello

Cello

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. In 1985, he formed a quartet with saxophonist Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...

, pianist

Pianist

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 Bobo Stenson

Bobo Stenson

Bo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...

 and drummer

Drummer

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 Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....

 that sometimes used Danielsson's name, producing several albums. He also worked with big bands.

He played and recorded with, among others, John Scofield

John Scofield

John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...

, Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...

, Mike Stern

Mike Stern

Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...

, Billy Hart

Billy Hart

William "Billy" Hart is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history.-Biography:Early on Hart performed in Washington, D.C...

, Charles Lloyd, Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more...

, Joey Calderazzo

Joey Calderazzo

Joey Calderazzo is a jazz pianist.Inspired by a friend who lived next door, Calderazzo began his piano studies at age seven. He progressed rapidly in a house where other family members were also playing drums and singing, and at 14 became the youngest member of brother Gene Calderazzo's rock band...

, Gino Vannelli

Gino Vannelli

Gino Vannelli is an Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and composer.-Early years:Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vannelli is one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ, his father, was a big band musician. As a child, Gino's greatest passion was music, and he began playing...

 and Dave Kikoski.

Since 1980, he has released eight solo albums with the Lars Danielssons Quartet. In these albums, Alex Acuña

Alex Acuña

Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist, in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved...

, John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie (guitarist)

John Abercrombie is an American jazz guitarist, whose work often explores jazz fusion and post bop. Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker...

, Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

, Rick Margitza

Rick Margitza

Rick Margitza is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Margitza began playing violin at age four; his grandfather was a cellist and his father played violin with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Following this he played piano and oboe, and settled on tenor sax while in Fordson high school...

 and Niels Lan Doky

Niels Lan Doky

Niels Lan Doky is a Danish jazz pianist and record producer.-Biography:He was born in Copenhagen of a Danish mother and Vietnamese father. His father worked as a doctor, but was also a classically trained guitarist so guitar was Niels's first instrument...

 were featured.

As a producer, Danielsson has been responsible for productions with Cæcilie Norby

Cæcilie Norby

Cæcilie Norby is a Danish jazz and rock singer. She was born in Frederiksberg into a musical family. Her father is composer Erik Norby, and her mother is an opera singer. In 1985 she had her first commercial success as a singer of the jazz / rock band Frontline...

 and The Danish Radio Orchestra among others.

Discography

As a sideman

• Artist: Jukkis Uotila

Album: Live

Featuring Mike Stern

Mike Stern

Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...

, Bob Berg

Bob Berg

Bob Berg was a jazz saxophonist originally from Brooklyn, New York City. He started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. Bob Berg was a Juilliard graduate influenced heavily by the late 1964–67 period...

Label: Stunt Records

• Artist: Allan Botschinsky
  Allan Botschinsky
  Allan Botschinsky is a Danish jazz trumpeter.Botschinsky's father played bassoon professionally. He began on trumpet at age 11 and at 14 began studying at the Royal Danish Conservatorium...
  
  

Album: The Knight

Featuring Victor Lewis

Victor Lewis

Victor Lewis is an American jazz drummer, a major force in the genre since the 1980s.-As leader:*1992: Family Portrait - with John Stubblefield, Edward Simon, Cecil McBee, Don Alias, Jumma Santos...

Label: MA Music NU676-2

• Artist: Cæcilie Norby
  Cæcilie Norby
  Cæcilie Norby is a Danish jazz and rock singer. She was born in Frederiksberg into a musical family. Her father is composer Erik Norby, and her mother is an opera singer. In 1985 she had her first commercial success as a singer of the jazz / rock band Frontline...
  
  

Album: My Corner of the Sky

Featuring Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

 , Randy Brecker

Randy Brecker

Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...

, Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more...

, Joey Calderazzo

Joey Calderazzo

Joey Calderazzo is a jazz pianist.Inspired by a friend who lived next door, Calderazzo began his piano studies at age seven. He progressed rapidly in a house where other family members were also playing drums and singing, and at 14 became the youngest member of brother Gene Calderazzo's rock band...

, Dave Kikoski

Label: Blue Note

Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres. Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the...

• Artist: Cæcilie Norby

Album: Queen of Bad Excuses

Label: Blue Note

• Artist: Cæcilie Norby

Album: First Conversation

Label: Blue Note

• Artist: Cæcilie Norby

Album: London Paris

Label: Copenhagen Records

• Artist: Trilok Gurtu

Album: The Glimpse

Label: CMP Records

• Artist: Tommy Smith
  Tommy Smith (saxophonist)
  Tommy Smith is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator. The late jazz critic Richard Cook said of him, 'Of the generation which emerged in the mid-80s, he might be the most outstandingly talented'.-Biography:...
  
  

Album: Azure

Featuring Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

, Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....

Label: Linn records

• Artist: Hans Ulrik

Album: Strange World
Label: STUCD 19406

• Artist: Hans Ulrik

Album: Shortcuts

Featuring John Scofield

John Scofield

John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...

, Peter Erskine

Peter Erskine

Peter Erskine is an American jazz drummer and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many famous jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan and Weather Report...

Label: Stunt Records

• Artist: Umo
  UMO
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   Plays Muhal Richard Adams

Album: -

Label: UNMOCD 101

• Artist: Niels Lan Doky
  Niels Lan Doky
  Niels Lan Doky is a Danish jazz pianist and record producer.-Biography:He was born in Copenhagen of a Danish mother and Vietnamese father. His father worked as a doctor, but was also a classically trained guitarist so guitar was Niels's first instrument...
  
  

Album: An Evening of Standards

Featuring Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, Alvin Queen

Label: DAM Mac 940 005

• Artist: Ulf Wakenius
  Ulf Wakenius
  Ulf Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist. Wakenius was a member of the Oscar Peterson quartet from 1997. He was also a member of the Ray Brown trio...
  
  

Album: Venture

Featuring Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...

, Bob Berg

Bob Berg

Bob Berg was a jazz saxophonist originally from Brooklyn, New York City. He started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. Bob Berg was a Juilliard graduate influenced heavily by the late 1964–67 period...

, Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, Randy Brecker

Randy Brecker

Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...

, Niels Lan Doky

Label: Bellaphon CDLR 45052

• Artist: Ulf Wakenius Group

Album: First Step

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Ulf Wakenius

Album: Enchanted Moments

Label: Dragon Records DRCD278

• Artist: Guitars Unlimited

Album: Extraordinaire

Featuring Ulf Wakenius & Peter Almqvist

Label: Musik Musik MM18

• Artist: Rolf Jardemark

Album: Guitarland

Label: Imogena IGCD 044

• Artist: Tolvan Big Band

Album: With Dave Liebman

Label: Dragon DRLP 120

• Artist: Tolvan Big Band

Album: With Tommy Körberg

Label: Polar Music

• Artist: Tolvan Big Band

Album: Colours for BB

Label: Phono Suecia PSCD 47

• Artist: Tolvan Big Band

Album: The Touch

Label: PPP0415

• Artist: Tolvan Big Band

Album: Live In London

Label: PPP0218

• Artist: Janne Schaffer

Album: Electric Graffiti

Label: CD EAR 003

• Artist: Janne Schaffer

Album: Ögonblick

Label: CDEAR 005

• Artist: Janne Schaffer

Album: Julglöd

Label: CDEAR 004

• Artist: Jazz from Sweden

Album: With Joakim Milder

Label: CAP 21409

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: The Eternal Now

Label: Tonart 27

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: A Window Towards Being

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: Invisible Friends

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: The Time We Have

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: Witnessing

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Lars Jansson Trio

Album: Hope

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Tobias Sjögren

Album: Hymn

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Ove Ingemarsson

Album: Heart of the Matter

Label: Imogena

• Artist: Sven Berggren

Album: Patchwork

Label: Caprice

• Artist: Equinox

Album: -

Label: Caprice

• Artist: Mwendo Dawa

Album: New York Lines

Label: Dragon

• Artist: Mwendo Dawa

Album: Four Voices

Label: Dragon

• Artist: Mwendo Dawa

Album: City Beat

Label: Dragon

• Artist: Mwendo Dawa

Album: Street Lines

Label: Dragon

• Artist: Anders Persson

Album: Láir De Cote

Label: Dragon

• Artist: Joey Calderazzo

Album: Our Standards

Label: CDG 32

• Artist: Emborg Larsen Group

Album: Ships in the Night

Label: Stunt Records

• Artist: Jonas Johansen

Album: Move

Featuring Frederik Lundin, Ben Besiakov

Label: Stunt Records

• Artist: Freda´

Album: Välkommen Hero

Label: Cantio

• Artist: Freda´

Album: Tusen Eldar

Label: Record Station

• Artist: Freda´

Album: Undan för undan

Label: Record Station

• Artist: Elisabet Eriksson

Album: Till Kärleken

Label: Intim Musik

• Artist: Margareta Evmark

Album: Havsvind

Label: IGCD 012

• Artist: Margareta Evmark

Album: Indian Summer

Label: EMP 1001

• Artist: Märta Schele

Album: Life and Death

Label: PRCD 9982

• Artist: Octavox

Album: -

Label: IGCD 013

• Artist: Malou Berg

Album: Den Inre Vägen

Label: CGRCD 9410

• Artist: Solid Gospel

Album: In His Hand

Label: SGCD 01

• Artist: Lydia

Album: Dia

Label: LCM C-113

• Artist: Jalle Ahlström

Album: That Lonely Road

Label: SHRCD 94001

• Artist: Anna-Lotta Larsson

Album: Jag Ser Dig I Smyg

Label: Frituna 0297 2

• Artist: Tomas Ledin

Album: T AND 2

Label: -

• Artist: Tata Vega

Album: Time's So Right

Label: RMCD 037

• Artist: Rune Gustafsson

Label: ECD 048

• Artist: Stina Nordenstam

Album: And She Closed Her Eyes

Label: -

• Artist: Mats Bergström

Album: With a Little Help from My Friends

Label: Areco Music

• Artist: Monica Borrfors

Album: Slowfox

Label: BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

• Artist: Niels Lan Doky

Album: Niels Lan Doky

Label: Verve Forecast

• Artist: Jerry Bergonzi/Joey Calderazzo

Album: Fast Company

Label: Blue Jackel

• Artist: Rick Margitza

Album: Game of Chance

Label: Challenge Records

• Artist: Ulf Wakenius

Album: Forever You

Label: STUCD

• Artist: Viktoria Tolstoy

Album: Shining on You

Label: ACT

• Artist: Rigmor Gustafsson

Album: I Will Wait for You

Label: ACT

• Artist: Nils Landgren

Album: Sentimental Journey

Label: ACT

• Artist: Niels Lan Doky

Album: Asian Session

Label: Universal

• Artist: Anders Kjellberg

Album: The Point

Label: Dragon Records

• Artist: Tomas Darelid

Album: -

Label: -

• Artist: Jacek Kochan

Album: -

Label: -

• Artist: Niels Lan Doky

Album: Spanish Songs

Label: -

• Artist: Niels Lan Doky

Album: Italian Songs

Label: -

Album: Mélange Bleu

Label: ACT (9604-2)

• Artist: Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Petter Molvaer

External links

• Personal website
• Lars Danielsson at All About Jazz
  All About Jazz
  All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in Philadelphia in the United States.Founded by Michael Ricci in 1995, the Web-Site is maintained by a volunteer staff of writers, editors, and musicians, and provides coverage of all genres of jazz from...
  
  
• [ Lars Danielsson] at Allmusic