Swedish pianist Lars-Egon “Lalle” Larsson, also known as Lale Larson has appeared on several acclaimed recordings over the years.

Larsson’s own music has been described as beautiful, virtuostic and a bit melancholic. With his main influences being John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy he has mixed a jazz sound with the modern sounds of the avant garde.

His devotion to music have lead him to countless hours in front of the piano and he has appeared on over 20 CD’s over the years alongside people like Gary Willis, Virgil Donati, Todd Duane, Shawn Lane, Sebastiaan Cornelissen, Randy Brecker, to mention but a few.

His unique keyboard style have made some of these recordings cult collectors’ items the world over and his playing has been described as a mixture of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea combined with the almost inhuman virtuoso sounds of Art Tatum and Conlon Nancarrow.

In 2001 Larsson received the Helsingborg culture award, a diploma from the city, plus 25.000 swedish kronor.

The following year he premiered the groundbreaking Seven Deadly Pieces at the Henry Dunker Culture Center in Helsingborg, Sweden. The music required a 200 page score written for chamber orchestra and thrash metal band, with no less than fifteen people on stage.

For the metal sections Lalle invited members from the highly acclaimed Swedish metal band Darkane. The concert was a great success, receiving rave reviews. Never before had the Culture Center witnessed such a mixed but enthusiastic audience, young and old, classical and metal, culminating in the composer receiving a standing ovation.

The concert was recorded and videoed and is being released on DVD together with a documentary about the composer.

In 2002 Lalle released the solo piano album State Of Mind via his website www.lallelarsson.com.

Lalle Larsson’s CD’s include several recordings for Liquid Note Records, his solo piano album State Of Mind, jazz-rock cd’s Ominox, Richard Hallebeek Project with the late guitar legend Shawn Lane, and Electrocution 250, electric cartoon music with Todd Duane & Peter Wildoer.

E-250 made number 1 in a chart in the UK’s most respected jazz magazine, Jazzwise, and is called “a masterpiece of originality” by the world press. In September of the same year it was released in Japan via Marquee/Avalon with new artwork and a brand new bonus track.

Larsson´s music is being played regularly on independent radiostations in Australia, USA, Mexico, Japan and Holland.

RHP topped guitar9.com remaining the most popular fusion album for several weeks, as well as receiving rave reviews.

The chart to Lalle´s composition “Free” is published in the January issue of Italian AXE magazine and he is called a “Swedish sensation” by the American press.

MJ Brady of Proggnosis describes the music on Ominox as:

“a statement of grand proportions that elevate this CD to the level of the very best in the history of progressive related fusion recordings.”

In 2004 Larsson joins bassist Jonas Reingold’s (Flower Kings) band Karmakanic together with Zoltan Csörsz (Flower Kings), Krister Jonsson, Rob Palmen & Göran Edman (ex Yngwie Malmsteen) for a European tour in Belgium, Holland and Germany.

In april 2006 they played at the progressive RosFestival in Philadelphia,US where they received a spontanous standing ovation by an enthusiastic audience in the middle of the set. A new album is now recorded so expect a release this fall, 2006.

Lalle’s latest trio release TimeLine, on Munich Records, features world reknowned bassist Gary Willis (Tribal Tech, Wayne Shorter) and drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen (Isotope, RHP).

As a guest and session musician “Lale Larson” has appeared on albums with Milan Polak, Alessandro Benvenuti, Joel Rivard, Bas Cornelissen, Gary Willis, Frans Vollink, Randy Brecker, Sir Millard Mulch, Virgil Donati, Phi Yaan Zek, Marco Minnemann, Richard Hallebeek, Shawn Lane, Brett Garsed, Jonas Reingold to name but a few.

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