Pianist

Music Director

Ragtime and stride piano performance by Morten Gunnar Larsen, featuring the concert program "Creole Connections" and music from the Caribbean and South America.

Morten Gunnar Larsen

Herr Nilsen

Odeon's style can best be described as New Orleans and Latin American chamber music, with its inspiration drawn from New Orleans revival jazz of the 1940s and 1950s, represented by musicians such as George Lewis and Bunk Johnson. The quintet's repertoire reflects a wide range of melodies: ballads, standards, hymns and, not least, choros and creole waltzes from Panama, Venezuela and Brazil, among others, by composers such as Ernesto Nazaret, Lionel Belasco, Luiz Americano and Ernesto Lecuona.

Odeon Jazz Quintet

Oslo Konserthus

Ophelia Orchestra, formed in 1977 by Morten Gunnar Larsen, performs ragtime, cakewalk, early jazz and Brazilian choro in original arrangements, dressed in tails. Concert presented as a collaboration between New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub and Oslo Jazzfestival, marking 40 years since the orchestra's debut at the first Oslo Jazzfestival in 1986.

Ophelia Orchestra - Oslo Jazzfestival

Stortorgets Gjæstgiveri

New Orleans-based traditional jazz mixed with gospel and rhythm and blues, featuring vocalist Majken Christiansen performing American Songbook standards.

Magnolia Jazzband m/Majken

The orchestra plays music with roots in the New Orleans jazz of the 1920s and 1930s. Well-known bandleaders such as Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson are represented in the band's repertoire list.

Christiania Jazzband and Morten Gunnar Larsen

Odeon's style can best be described as New Orleans and Latin American chamber music, drawing its inspiration from New Orleans revival jazz around the 1940s and 1950s, as represented by musicians such as George Lewis and Bunk Johnson. The quintet's repertoire reflects a broad range of melodies: ballads, standards, hymns and, not least, choros and creole waltzes from, among others, Panama, Venezuela and Brazil, with composers such as Ernesto Nazaret, Lionel Belasco, Luiz Americano and Ernesto Lecuona.

ODEON JAZZ QUARTET

Early jazz quintet from Norway playing the music of the Roaring Twenties, rooted in the early 1900s New Orleans jazz tradition.

Norwegian Jazz Kings

Traditional jazz all-star concert at Herr Nilsen, Oslo. Musicians: Erik Eilertsen (trumpet), Lars Frank (clarinet/sax), Kristoffer Kompen (trombone), Morten Gunnar Larsen (piano), Børre Frydenlund (banjo/guitar/vocals), Svein Aarbostad (bass), Magnus Eide (drums).

NOW All Stars

Magnolia Jazzband (established 1972 in Oslo) plays New Orleans-based traditional jazz blended with gospel and rhythm and blues. The band was started by trombonist Gunnar Gotaas and is today one of Norway's oldest bands in continuous operation.

Pianist, Music Director

Morten Gunnar Larsen

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 9, 2026

Magnolia Jazzband · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

Past events

Sep 30, 2026

Morten Gunnar Larsen · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

Sep 12, 2026

Odeon Jazz Quintet · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

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