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Just Because: Jan Allan

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Jan Allan with the Visby Big Band, Berwaldhallen Stockholm, Sweden, 1985. Arranged, conducted and introduced by Rob McConnell.

Later this month, Allan, now 79, will join pianist Jan Lundgren, bassist Georg Riedel, saxophonist-composer Erik Norström and the Bohuslän Big Band for an eight-city tour of Sweden in honor of the late pianist Bengt Hallberg.130x100xJan-Allan.jpg.pagespeed.ic.5s4nkYH05z

For a previous Rifftides post about Jan Allan, go here.

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