Jan Lohmann
I'm 54 years old, married and have one son. My wife and I live in Farum, a pleasant small village 10 miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark, which is close to forests, lakes and the seacoast. My son, who is a student, lives in Copenhagen, our nation's capital.
In my professional life I work as an electrical engineer, (mostly with Power Supply and Traction: Trains) for a large multinational corporation. But in my spare time I have been working for many years now on what I hope one day to be the definitive and 'complete' Miles Davis discography.
In 1992, the year after Miles' sudden death in September of 1991, I published the 1st edition of my Miles Davis discography "THE SOUND OF MILES DAVIS" with all the information available to me at that time.
Besides this discographical work, I'm also active in radio production. I have done jazz programs for the Danish National Radio and a few different local radio stations. I was even one of the founders of Radio Jazz, a local radio station in the Copenhagen area which broadcasts music and interviews for six and a half hours weekdays (9 PM till 3.30 AM) and 3 hours each day on weekends (1PM till 4 PM).
My Miles Davis discography has been very positively received - it got nice reviews and sold fairly well.
One purpose of the book was to let everyone know that someone was in fact working on such a project and that I would appreciate feedback on what I had done. And people did react - as a result of the corrections and additions received I am now working on a 2nd edition, which I hope to make as complete as possible. It will include the result of searches in the Columbia and Warner Bros. vaults, as well as the contributions of helpful friends from around the world who contact me either by mail or on the Internet.