Richard Andersson

Copenhagen-based Danish/Faroese/Icelandic bassist and composer.


I’m a bass player and composer playing modern jazz. I’ve been playing music since I lost my eye sight as a teenager. As a bandleader I’ve released several albums with Danish and international musicians such as Oskar Gudjonsson (IS), Rudi Mahall (DE), Kasper Tranberg (DK), Jerry Bergonzi (US), Ra-Kalam Bob Moses (US), Tony Malaby (US) and Bill McHenry (US).



Latest news

  • Happy holidays

    2023 is soon coming to an end and this means that there’s thing from the past year to be grateful for and things that I’m looking forward to in 2024. 2023 was the year that I got to play a nice and long tour with Jeff “Tain” Watts and Carl Winther, I released the third…

  • Gifts, gifts and more gifts

    So many exciting things are happening at the moment. It can be hard to keep up. In the beginning of November, I went to Nykøbing Mors where I played a very special show at Limfjordsteatret. Two choreographers created the show with drama students from the local high school and I made the soundtrack along with…

  • A reunion with friends

    October is in full swing and from now on it looks to be a busy autumn for me. I’m very happy to be playing with Rakalam Bob Moses again. I met him for the first time in 2012 where he was an artist in residence in Denmark. At that time I arranged a couple of…


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Richard Andersson

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