Author: Richard Andersson

  • New NOR release and concert at Reykjavik Jazz Festival

    I’m finally ready to release the 2. album with my trio NOR. It’s called “The six of us”, and it’s an homage to my family and families in general. Oskar and Matti are far more than just good colleagues and we have built a strong friendship that I really appreciate. It almost feels like we…

  • Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2018 concerts

    The annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival is coming up. The dates are July 6-15. As usual I’m playing a lot of concerts and this year I’m also hosting and co-hosting concert series at Bådteatret in Nyhavn, Tårnby Hovedbibliotek and Havnepakhuset in the beautiful village Dragør. Really looking forward. To read more about every concert and buy…

  • Duo concerts in December

    I’m happy to announce , that I’m doing a series of duo concerts during December at the public library in Taarnby, which is located not far from Copenhagen city center. It’s going to be four different duos with some of the musicians that I admire the most, and with whom I love to play standards. We…

  • Richard Andersson NOR: Vinyl release!

    Richard Andersson NOR / Nor is now available on vinyl. Thanks to Dansk Kapelmesterforening and DJBFA for financial support and to Magnus Helgason for beautiful artwork. You can buy it here

  • My Copenhagen jazz festival 2017

    So tomorrow the anual Copenhagen jazz festival takes off, and I’m really looking forward to a lot of great concerts coming up. My program looks like this: Friday 7/7 at 1 PM Tuznik/Andersson /Vestergaard (Artur Tuznik / RA / Anders Vestergaard) Studenterhuset, Copenhagen K Friday 7/7 at 11:45 PM La Fontaine Jam session (Per Møllehøj…

  • Summer offer

    It’s summer! I’d love to buy you all an icecream, but I cant. Instead I’d like to offer you a digital download of my music at a ridicolously low price. There are six albums to choose from for 2$ each. Or buy the entire discography for only 9$. If you’d like to pay more -feel…

  • Richard Andersson NOR Release tour April 2017

    The debut album from Richard Andersson NOR will be released on april 21st! We will be presenting our music around Iceland. Here is where you can find us: April 18th: The Danish Embassy in Reykjavik (by invitation only) April 19th: Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður April 20th: Hof, Akureyri April 21st: Alþýðuhúsid, Siglufjörður April 22nd: Garðabær jazz festival…

  • NEW release coming soon…..

    I used to call this trio Richard Andersson Icelandic Trio, but I admit that wasn’t the most genius name. So for our debut album we have changed name: Richard Andersson NOR.  Richard Andersson NOR is a very important trio to me. Oskar Gudjonsson (sax), Matthias Hemstock (drums) and I, have spent endless hours in the…

  • UDU / Itu now available on vinyl!

    I have ben looking so much foreward to releasing my music on vinyl for the first time! Richard Andersson UDU is my Copenhagen based quartet and this is our second release! The first one, Richard Andersson UDU / UDU (available here) came out in the summer of 2012. Kasper Tranberg, Trumpet Jesper Zeuthen, Alto sax…

  • Artist In Residence in December

    I have been looking forward to this for a long time: In December I´ll be the ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at Mandagsklubben!! Mandagsklubben is the hippest avant-garde-scene in Copenhagen presenting a handfull of mind blowing concertss every Monday night. I am honored to have been given the chance to present my music in different constellations throughout…

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