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Also known as Lars Fredrik Jansson

author and cartoonist (1926-2000)

Person · Open Library

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10

Top works

  • Moomin Adventures
  • Moomin Adventures
  • Moomin and the Comet
  • Mitt liv som homosexuell
  • Moomin Book Eleven

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
SE
Active from
1951

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
12,395
Total plays
93,022

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Lars Jansson was born in 1951, and grew up in Örebro, Sweden, where he was bored by his lessons at the community music school. In his early teens, a relative lent him records with Miles Davis, Ben Webster, and Mose Allsion. During the 1960s, he followed the fashion and developed an interest in the organ. He listened to Kjell Öhman play with the Telstars, to Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff, and to Hammond organ music. Drummer Sjunne Ferger became an important figure in his life, and together they for

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date of birth
1926-10-08
date of death
2000-07-31
name in native language
Lars Jansson
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