Frosties Hot Four
This swedish jazz quartet swings a lot!
Plays swing jazz, blues and bossa nova.
Leader Anders 'Frosties' Frostin - violin, viola, vocal
Nils Bondesson - piano, vocal
Anders Lorentzi - double bass, el. bass
Henrik Rosengren - drums
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
We are all pro jazz musicians, playing in several bands.
This is the most 'jazz violin swing' band, for the other 3.
We played together since 2000, with different drummers. And we are happy to work with Henrik now.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes, of course! We are foremost a live band. Love to get an audience swinging and dancing to our music. We had some very nice wedding gig experiences, where we all had lots of fun - People loved it!
Your musical influences
Jazz Violin - Swing. Grappelli, but more swingy, bluesy. Svend Asmussen (he is great and so elegant!), but with more feeling/emotion.
Bluesy, great singing from Nils Bondesson. (some Sinatra, some Nat King Cole)
Anders 'Frosties' is a virtuoso violinist, classically trained, toured whole Europe, which shows sometimes in our music. But swing, groove, blues is our focus!
Show numbers in parties, with gypsy violin stuff is also a feature of ours.
What equipment do you use?
Violin mic - Realist. Roland AC-60 amp (often).
