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Banjoist

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

Herr Nilsen

The small big band Christiania 12 has done the same thing since it was founded in 1992: playing good music. Since the start, some of the kingdom's very best musicians in the trad, swing and mainstream traditions have made up the collective Christiania 12, a dazzling big band of the kind that was common in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

CHRISTIANIA12

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

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.

Guitarist, Vocalist, Mandolinist, Banjo Player, Musician, Banjoist

Børre Frydenlund

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 9, 2026

Magnolia Jazzband · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

Past events

Sep 12, 2026

Odeon Jazz Quintet · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

Aug 15, 2026

Ophelia Orchestra - Oslo Jazzfestival · New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

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