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Jan Lundgren is well known among American jazz listeners as a fluent, bop-influenced pianist whose style is both economical and graceful. He's recorded a number of albums either in the States or as a sideman with American horn players such as Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen. Presently in his mid-fifties, in my view he is in his prime."Flowers of Sendai" displays Lundgren as part of a trio, with Mattias Svensson on bass, and Zoltan Csorsz, Jr., on drums. Both are top-drawer and complement each other and Lundgren perfectly. The tunes on this album are pretty much all taken at a medium-slow tempo, with one or two being outright ballads. This, for me, makes listening to this album a somewhat contemplative experience. Further, with the exception of Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", the tunes are written by European composers, including Lundgren, and are unfamiliar to me. This, for me, is also a plus. I've got albums of Lundgren playing tunes from the bebop canon at L.A.'s late, lamented Jazz Bakery, and I know he's the real deal as a jazzman. For me he's got nothing to prove, so I was free to just open my ears and listen to this album, which I think is a delight.As for Sendai, it is a city in Japan. Possibly its flowers meant something to Lundgren, as both the album and a song on it are "The Flowers of Sendai".As with all my CD reviews, I make no attempt at objectivity, but review based on my taste and listening experience.