{"id":7,"date":"2015-11-19T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T10:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nytt.jrmusic.is\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:30:40","slug":"jon-rafnsson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/jon-rafnsson\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f3n Rafnsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-424 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON.jpg\" alt=\"JON\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JON-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>J\u00f3n Rafnsson (1958), founder and owner of JR Music, has been on the music scene since in his teens. Having taught himself how to play the electric bass and guitar, J\u00f3n started his career in the mid 70s by playing with rock and dance bands around the south coast of Iceland. He then began classical training on violin, piano and double bass from 1976 \u2013 1983 and continued his double bass studies with Professor Thorvald Fredin in Stockholm, Sweden. J\u00f3n is also a qualified music teacher with a degree from the Stockholm Institut of Musicpedagogy (SMI). Since returning to Iceland from Sweden in 1990, J\u00f3n has been very active in the musical life of Iceland, performing jazz, blues, rock, classical music, playing in dance bands, for theatre shows, and taking part in many recordings. \u00a0J\u00f3n has performed with some of the world\u2019s leading jazz musicians, including Philip Catherine (Belgium), Didier Lockwood and Sylvain Luc (France), Kazumi Watanabe (Japan), J\u00f8rgen Svare, Kristian J\u00f8rgensen and Jacob Fischer (Denmark), James Carter and Larry Coryell (USA), Richard Gillis (Canada), Ulf Wakenius, Jonas Knutsson, Nils Landgren, Jonas Gideon and Janne Schaffer (Sweden). \u00a0He is a member of the Icelandic trios, <a href=\"https:\/\/guitarislancio.is\/en\/\">Guitar Islancio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djass.com\/\">DJ\u00c4SS<\/a> among many other projects and is also working as a bass teacher.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/new.guitarislancio.is\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyten\/images\/JR.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00f3n Rafnsson (1958), founder and owner of JR Music, has been on the music scene since in his teens. Having taught himself how to play the electric bass and guitar, J\u00f3n started his career in the mid 70s by playing with rock and dance bands around the south coast of Iceland. He then began classical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/jon-rafnsson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">J\u00f3n Rafnsson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmusic.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}