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On this album, we hear him in a number of settings, from solo piano to trio, quartet, quintet, and up up to octet. His partners are well-known names from Stockholm’s jazz elite, with the exception of the worthy Willy Lundin. West Indian Rudi Smith is also something of a rare bird in this setting. His steel pan playing garnered him a lot admiration in the studio sessions.

This portrait of Lars Sjösten reveals him to be an improviser with a strong sense of form, compositional thinking and deep-rooted feeling for the basic language and traditions of jazz. He was simply one of the genuine stylists of Swedish jazz.

Recorded in Studio 4, Swedish Radio, Stockholm 21-23 april 1980.
Performers: Lars Olofsson (trombone), Willy Lundin (alto sax), Sture Nordin (bass), Egil Johansen (drums), Jan Allan (trumpet), Ulf Andersson (alto sax), Hector Bingert (tenor sax), Erik Nilsson (baritone sax & bass clarinet), and Rudi Smith (steel pans)
Technician: Rune Sundvall
Producer: Jan Bruér
Texts: Johnny Olsson
Translation: Kim Loughran
Editor: Suzanne Öhman-Sundén
Graphics: Pontus Reuterswärd
Photgraphy: Gunnar Smoliansky