Yours Truly

Vocals: Gine Gaustad Anderssen
Piano: Ove A. Billington

Yours Truly started back in 2002. Their music has a rich, soft and modern sound with a heavy focus on improvisation. They mainly play tunes from the standard repertoire in jazz, they express a great respect for the jazz-tradition. Their next record, which was recorded in the famous Rainbow Studios in Oslo consist of several well known tunes and some not so well known ones. 
In May 2008, the members of the band toured in Japan with Yasuhito Mori’s Scandinavian Connection. During the concerts they always performed some of the material from this record with great success, and there were a great demand for records from the audience during this tour. In April 2009 the duo will again do a tour in Japan. There will be held concerts at the following places:

April 22nd    Pit inn - Tokyo
April 23rd     Hermit Dolphin – Hamamatsu
April 24th     Utsuwa - Niigata
April 25th     Coo - Sapporo
April 26th     Amidasama - Tomakomai
April 28th     Café Up’s - Koga
May 1st        Body & Soul – Tokyo

Gine Gaustad Andersen (born in Molde – Norway, 1980) has been working as a freelance musician in- and outside Norway since 1999. During this time she has also found the time to complete a bachelor degree in music at the University of Trondheim, Norway and a master degree in jazz vocal at The School of Music and Theatre in Gothenburg, Sweden. There she studied with the renowned bass player Professor Anders Jormin. She has also been teaching vocals and improvisation at several schools in the Norway and Sweden. In recent years she has also been touring frequently with different groups in Japan, Estonia, Sweden and Denmark.

Ove Alexander Billington (born in Fredrikstad – Norway, 1979) is well known in Norway as a freelance/session musician since 1997. He has worked with several of the best Norwegian musicians like Petter Wettre, Tore Johansen, Marvin Charles, Bodil Niska and Staffan William-Olsson. He is also an experienced composer and band leader. From 2002-2006 he studied at University of Trondheim where he earned a bachelor degree in jazz piano.

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