Swedish trumpeter Jan Allan began his professional career in the early '50s, and his artistic muse basically followed the central highway of popular music in the ensuing decades, stopping off wherever a trumpet was welcome. A given Allan performance might be in the style of Herb Alpert, or bossa nova, or brassy jazz-rock damp with Blood, Sweat & Tears, or a progressive Stan Kenton experiment. From the age of 14, Allan was seriously enamored with jazz, the interest inspiring him to switch from piano, which he had started at the age of six, to the trumpet. Gigs around the town o...