Sven-Åke Johansson

 
Sven-Åke Johansson (born 1943 in Mariestad, Sweden) is one of the style-defining drummers of the German free jazz era of the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1980s onwards, he pursued an artistic path largely independent of institutions and groups as a music performer in the circles of fine arts and new music. Among other things, more than fifty record releases, a number of music theatre pieces, radio plays, pictorial works and a lively touring life are among his oeuvre.

See also Das Moabiter Duo (Sven-Åke Johansson & Thomas Kapielski).

(external link : www.sven-akejohansson.com)
 
Sven-Åke Johansson - ... über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel (2 vinyl LP + DVD + booklet + libretto box set)
2024
Edition Telemark
A music drama performed in the Hebbel Theatre Berlin in 1994—a key work from Sven-Åke Johansson & Alexander von Schlippenbach.
Sven-Åke Johansson - Night Music - First recordings (vinyl LP + 2 CD)
2021
Edition Telemark
"Night Music" unearthes Sven-Åke Johansson's very first recordings from 1964—made with his Tandberg tape recorder in the Kronenburg Bar, a dive bar in the red-light district in Münster/Westfalen (West Germany). There he performed jazz versions of popular songs and standards with Uwe Wegner (piano) and Gerold Flasse (double bass), sometimes joined by Dutch singer Jenny Gordee. Young Udo Lindenberg was a frequent guest at the Kronenburg Bar


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