Andreas Hellkvist

First "real" gig with this trio! Due to corona, we have only done streams so far so it was really nice to come out and play for a real audience!

This date was originally booked for Boheme, we had to cancel so instead we asked Erik Söderlind to join and do our repertoire S.H.O.P. Organ jazz of the 50s and 60s. Hard swinging straight ahead jazz in the spirit of Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff and others. So much fun!

The international day of workers, right after the international jazz day. What a an interesting combination! There are also some birthdays to celebrate, for example Duke Ellington and Toots Tielemans. Needless to to say, it wasn't that hard to find songs to play for this stream.

In this day, April 24th, in 1934, Laurens Hammond filed the patent for the Hammond organ. I wonder if he could ever imagine what he was about to create? So this is a celebration to that.

I've been looking forward to this stream. Partly because I really enjoy the organ and drums format, partly because I get to play a lot of my own music. Daniel plays on both my records and we have a long history together, so there's a lot of material to choose from.

Celebrating Herbie Hancock, Beessie Smith and Dave Edmunds. And even a strip to space remembering Jurj Gagarin!

The 100th day of 2021! How are we doing so far? Not that bad I think, although I did expect that we'd be further along fighting the pandemic. But what good is that vaccines are being distributed all across the globe. This day, April 10th is also the birthday of organ giant Joey DeFrancesco and…

Playing with Claes is always a joy and the duo format makes it even more intimate and playful. This was a great third edition of "Jazz at the HQ"

Celebrating Easter with my extended family of viewers all around the world, observing the birthdays of Jimmy McGriff, Eric Clapton and Harb Alpert as well as some musical candy handout in form of requested songs.

Sometimes it's really easy to find a theme for the stream. This was definitely one of those times. A color is often a good starting point and with the red dress the choice was obvious. Also celebrating birthdays of Aretha Franklin and Ben Webster.

hen I decided to do my Wednesday band streams, Trinity was the first band to be booked. This trio is truly one of the cornerstones of my musical life. We've been playing together for more than 15 years and released 4 albums so far. Due to corona we havne't played together since October so this…

This Saturday is the very date for the spring equinox. A point of balance between light and dark. A day of unity in the sense that day and night is equally long all across the globe. And here on the northern hemisphere - we're also heading towards lighter times!

Monday of this week was March 8th, the International Women's day. And so I thought it might be nice to honor some of the female jazz organists the I have listened to over the years, like Shirley Scott, Rhoda Scott, Trudy Pitts and the Swedish queen of the Hammond Merit Hemmingsson. Also recognizing the birthday…

Today was really exciting! First concert in a new series of band streams, called Wednesday jazz at the HQ. It felt like turning the studio into my very own jazz club. Every other Wednesday there'll be a streamed concert with one of the bands with whom I play. First up - a trio that was…

The theme for this stream was easy. As soon as I'd taken the picture the week before I saw the blue color stocking out so much I thought that would have to be the theme. So, a few blues tunes, and the actual songs Blue velvet, and some other stuff as well. A lot of…

A springtime stream indeed! The last couple of days has been some really beautiful spring days. The snow has melted, the sun is shining and even though it's windy, they aren't cold winter winds anymore. Except spring I also wanted to celebrate the birthdays of George Harrison, Fats Domino and Max Martin.

At this time one year ago, everything was just rockin'. I had made a small tour with Trinity earlier in the week. Over the weekend I went to celebrate my dad's 80th birthday by throwing him a party, bring the B3 and play some of his favorite organ tunes. the week after the was a…

On the day before Valentine's day, the theme has to be love. So I got to play some of my favorite love songs. Also a tribute to Chick Corea, who sadly passed away this week.

After 2 weeks on the XK5 it was nice being back at the B3. Celebrating Joe Sample and Joshua Redan, as well as playing a few tunes from "Groundhog day" and some Swedish 60s schlager .

Another stream at the XK5 classic! This one a littre more rockish than the previous. Also feeling a little nostalgic that it was one year ago I could play with my trio so I included a couple of my own songs as well.

It's nice to change things up once in a while. I've had my XK5 classic for almost a year now and have been playing it quite a few gigs (well, given the corona situation...). Also. this week is NAMM week and it was after last year's exhibition that I got the XK5. So, a lot…

It's been an interesting week preparing for this stream! Got a lot of requests for songs that I haven't heard or played so a lot of new stuff to digest. The result, as usual, is a quite diverse set of songs, including both jazz, soul and Elton John! Speaking of the latter, playing "Funeral for…

What a week it has been! It sure was a relief to just sitt down at hte Hammond, play Elvis songs and others and just hang out with the wonderful audince.

Finally we get to celebrate the end of 2020. A year that I think we all have wished would be over. This stream is all about the party which is reflected in the set list. Party jazz and nothing else. Cheers and Happy new year!