Jan Lundgren, born on 22 March 1966 in Olofström, Blekinge, and resident in Ystad since 2005, is an internationally active Swedish jazz musician.

Jan Lungren’s international career began in the mid-1990s, when the first album under his own name, Conclusion, released in 1994, was launched in Europe, North America and Japan.

His first contacts with the American jazz scene developed via the saxophonist Herb Geller into regular collaborations with Dick Bank, a producer for Fresh Sound Records.

These include Mare Nostrum with Paolo Fresu and Richard Galliano, Magnum Mysterium with Gustaf Sjökvist’s chamber choir and Lars Danielsson, Jan Lundgren Trio with Mattias Svensson and Zoltán Csörsz, Jazz på svenskt vis with the Jan Lundgren Trio & Göteborg Wind Orchestra, Potsdamer Quartet with Jukka Perko, Dan Berglund and Morten Lund, A Tribute to Jan Johansson with Mattias Svensson and a string quartet, Kristallen with Nils Landgren and Into the Night with Lars Danielsson and Émile Parisien.

Swedish artists and musicians Jazz: Karl-Martin Almqvist, Peter Asplund, Hans Backenroth, Anders Bergcrantz, Arne Domnérus, Lars Erstrand, Rune Gustafsson, Rasmus Kihlberg, Gunnar “Siljabloo” Nilsson, Mattias Svensson, Viktoria Tolstoy, Ulf Wakenius, Putte Wickman, Monica Zetterlund.

International artists and musicians Eric Alexander, Joe Ascione, Benny Bailey, Chuck Berghofer, Deborah Brown, Conte Candoli, Dave Carpenter, Billy Drummond, Art Farmer, Herb Geller, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Vincent Herring, Paul Kreibich, Joe LaBarbera, Jesper Lundgaard, Katrine Madsen, Bill Perkins, Rich Perry, Alex Riel, Peter Washington.

Swedish artists and musicians Jazz: Miriam Aida, Hans Backenroth, Dan Berglund, Lars Danielsson, Ronnie Gardiner, Bengt Hallberg, Nils Landgren, Klas Lindquist, Carin Lundin, Georg Riedel, Zoltán Csörsz, Hannah Svensson, Ewan Svensson, Jojje Wadenius.

Popular musik: Pernilla Andersson, Marit Bergman, Jason Diakité, Göran Fristorp, LaGaylia Frazier, Hayati Kafe, Lill Lindfors, Edda Magnason, Michael Saxell.

International artists and musicians Harry Allen, Arild Andersen, Jacob Fischer, Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Nico Gori, Wolfgang Haffner, Scott Hamilton, Pete Jolly, Stacey Kent, Trudy Kerr, Rebecca Kilgore, Lee Konitz, Morten Lund, Grégoire Maret, Charlie Mariano, Andy Martin, James Moody, Cæcilie Norby, Émile Parisien, Clarence Penn, Jukka Perko, Yosuke Sato, Janis Siegel, Clark Terry, Tom Warrington, Kenny Washington.

Mark Gilbert of Jazz Journal has made the following observation of Lundgren: "He [began] as a classically trained pianist and the practice is unmistakable in the pinpoint precision, lucid articulation, unerring melodic sense and apparently effortless range that characterise his piano playing; he quickly creates a sense of musical security and trust.

[4] In his review of Lundgren's 2013 solo album Man in the Fog, Jazz Journal critic Michael Tucker cited two tracks as "delicious examples of this wide-ranging pianist’s clarity of ideas and phrasing and simultaneous delicacy and purposiveness of touch.

[7] Artists who have performed at the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival include: Cyrille Aimée, Monty Alexander, Jan Allan, Arild Andersen, Kenny Barron, Anders Bergcrantz, Stefano Bollani, Richard Bona, Fabrizio Bosso, Cristina Branco, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Deborah Brown, Vivian Buczek, Avishai Cohen (trumpeter), Avishai Cohen (bassist), Yamandu Costa, Lily Dahab, Lars Danielsson, Rosalia De Souza, Al Di Meola, Louis van Dijk, Dave Douglas, Elina Duni, Eliane Elias, Bill Evans, Jacob Fischer, Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Herb Geller, Robert Glasper, Benny Golson, Benny Green, Rigmor Gustafsson, Wolfgang Haffner, Bengt Hallberg, Scott Hamilton, Roy Hargrove, Billy Harper, Tom Harrell, Dave Holland, Hiromi, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bob James, Lars Jansson, Nicole Johänntgen, Quincy Jones, Goran Kajfes, Jacob Karlzon, Omer Klein, Karin Krog, Joachim Kühn, Nils Landgren, Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, The Manhattan Transfer, Grégoire Maret, Pat Martino, Hugh Masekela, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nils Petter Molvær, Joyce Moreno, Leszek Możdżer, Cæcilie Norby, Lina Nyberg, Émile Parisien, Clarence Penn, Jukka Perko, Enrico Pieranunzi, Iiro Rantala, Enrico Rava, Joshua Redman, Dianne Reeves, Georg Riedel, Bernt Rosengren, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Terje Rypdal, Heinz Sauer, Andreas Schaerer, Diane Schuur, John Scofield, Omar Sosa, John Surman, Tomasz Stanko, Bobo Stenson, Yosuke Sato, Ewan Svensson, Hannah Svensson, Martin Taylor, Toots Thielemans, Jesper Thilo, Svante Thuresson, Martin Tingvall, Viktoria Tolstoy, Tonbruket, Bengt-Arne Wallin, Marcin Wasilewski, Bugge Wesseltoft, Michael Wollny, Lizz Wright, Youn Sun Nah, Dhafer Youssef, Kjell Öhman.

The pianists who performed at the festival were: Nik Bärtsch, Jacob Karlzon, Jan Lundgren, Marialy Pacheco, Iiro Rantala and Johanna Summer.

[11] The jazz club opened in 1959 and legendary artists such as Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster have played there.