1969.
The jazz musician Jan Johansson played the beauty of ordinary life, ordinary man, ordinary nature - subtle and full of hidden variables and transcendences.
The ordinary and normal seemed to interest him with it's wonders - the wilderness of nature, the wilderness of human nature - in it's everyday shape and sudden changes.
Forests and mountains, bursts of screaming birds. 
War and peace.

The piano music of Jan Johansson were timid and non aggressive, always in a low pitch.
Together with bass player Georg Riedel he played the beauty of normality and introduced jazz music to the classical music lovers as well as to the folk music lovers of the sixties.

In a sudden he was gone, in an ordinary car crash, all to young and gifted.

Tomas Brusell
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