Andreas Hellkvist

The last gig on our school tour in Dalarna was at Falu Jazz club's new venue on Thursday night. Cozy place, great acoustics and a fun concert!

Always fun to play for school children. With Trinity, we want to stimulate the interest for jazz among younger kids. This week we did a school concert tour in my home county of Dalarna, and this picture is from the third of our concerts, in Gagnef.

One of the most important things when doing school concerts and clinics I think is to show the B3 as thoroughly as possible, as most of the students most often only have played the clones and sometimes only the sounds. To show the origin of all that, and explain some of the features in clones…

It sure is cosy with some real candle light on stage and it certainly adds to the mood, but I have to admit - I was a little worried the whole concert that something bad might happen. Fortunately it didn't!

The main event for me on Uppsala's culture night was the concert with Apan & Grisen. Here's a video of my song Jesus.

Somethings (well, actually, a lot of things) you do purely for the fun of it. This was the premiere gig of ШУМ, where I play the guitar and sing. The repertoire consists solely of Soviet era rock music. The russian language and russian history has always been an interest of mine and this is a great…

On one of the nicest summer days so far we had our last church concert this season. The last concert of a tour is always sad in a way, but it was also a inspired, energetic concert with a big and warm audience cheering us all the way.

We had quite a tight schedule getting to this gig as we were playing in the north of Norway the night before. We got stage at about 2am, arrived at the hotel at 3, and then a cab would come and drive us to the airport at 6am. But everything worked out. We had a…

Trinity's first concert outside Norway, and the farthest north we've been so far! Hemnesjazz (www.hemnesjazz.no) is a really nice festival held in the small town of Hemnesberget, close to Mo I Rana in Norway. Though the surroundings were beautiful, we couldn't stick around much t enjoy them, since we were heading back for a Swedish festival…

A last minute gig that was booked just a few days in advance. Ali and I also came directly from a Trinity gig in Uppsala, so as soon as got the B3 in place we started playing. It was really cooking!

Playing in Uppsala is always fun. Today, though, was a little stressful due to that me and Ali were going to rush to another gig in Stockholm afterwards. Palli was there taking photo

It's always a special feeling playing in the town where you grew up. Family and old friends coming to listen but not only that, the audience was even bigger than we expected. The acoustics of this church is a little tricky so you have to play more sparse than usual, especially on faster tunes. On…

About as close as we get to our 10 year anniversary! Our first two gigs was on July 18th 2005. Needless to say, a lot has happened over the years, but the core of what we do is still the same. And what's more important, we've kept the spirit and playfulness. We still have a…

For the first time in five years, Trinity played att this wonderful old wooden church in the heart of the county of Dalarna. As you can see, not a lot of space in the front but it all worked out and it was a great concert.

Having had our last gig in April I was really excited to play with Trinity again. This was also the first concert on our 10th anniversary summer tour. Orsa kyrka has always been a great place to play and this time was no exception. Nice acustics, great audience and long warm applause.

I was asked by Elliot Elliot to record one of his songs for an upcoming album. The recording was made at Porksausage studio in Stockholm and I got to play duo with drum legend Morgan Ågren! A most memorable experience, for sure. It was recorded both on audio and video so I hope to be…

Pub gig in the old town of Stockholm. 

As usual with this trio there was some high energy jazz. Just a few days earlier, Joel had his graduation concert at the Royal College of music in Stockholm. Tenor sax player Krister Andersson also played in the first set but had to leave in the first intermission so for the rest of the night…

First gig in a long time with this band. I used my Nord C2D with Leslie 2103mkII. Sound engineer loved it, so it might be a good setup also for higher intensity gigs such as this. I think it was quite an inspiring gig for all of us!

As always, a lot of hard swinging bebop when playing with Joel Svensson. Krister Andersson is always a delight on the tenor sax. For once, I brought my custom B3 to the gig.

Hedemora Blues Jam, a great monthly event in the town of Hedemora. Open jam between 2pm and 5 pm and then a main act playing a one set show. This time the main act was Arnesen Bluesband. What a great evening it was!

Hotel Mornington in Stockholm City hosts a very cozy jazz club every thursday night. 

Because of some practical problems I couldn't play at the game, so instead I played some in the café in the intermissions. Had a lot of fun! Looked up some karaoke versions on all types of songs and played played the melody on the organ.

Joel Svensson Trio with Krister Andersson played at Täby Jazzklubb. We had a great night!