Andreas Hellkvist

Uppsala isn't really a summer city. Many people go away on their summer vacation and so the city kind of sleeps during this time. This summer, however, Katalin opened a new stage at the deck outside and had several concerts each week. For me, who spends quite a lot of time in town during summer…

Nice summer gig in Växjö, a town very dear to me. It was also livestreamed, so you can watch whenever. The video is linked below.

Playing with Kiralina and this trio is always such a joy and this time was no exception. Gospel songs and jazz standards, played in our own way.

Remembering my birthday concert 5 years ago, where I played with Trinity, a Kjell Öhman tribute and had the release of my album Finally! This also was my last Saturday stream in a while so it was a little sad as well.

Celebrating Pentecost on the same day as the European song contest, I thought the theme should be voices. And so, for the first time on these streams, I sing a couple of tunes! Also cheering my beloved neighboring country Norway.

In these times it's really liberating to get out and play. Only going to Stockholm, about an hour away, feels like being on tour. And Glenn Miller Café is the perfect place to get all your ideas out of the system, especially in a duo setting.

Arnesen Blues band har been around for almost 20 years and has a more modern approach to the blues, sometimes streching the boundaries towards other genres. In any case, it's a well oiled swinging machine!

The weekend after Ascension day and of the themes is flying, as Christ did to the heavens. Also celebrating the birthday of Stevie Wonder and others.

The day of victory in Europe in World war 2, in 1945. So let's take a look back and explore the music back then. Also, Keith Jarrett was born on that exact day and Groove Holmes had his birthday earlier in the week.

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…