“Hallo, hallo! De lytter til Kringkastingsselskapet A/S!” The 17-piece ensemble The Jazzistocrats – “Tigerstaden's syncopated lowbrow nobility” – aims to make you believe you are sitting inside an old radio from the early days of Norwegian broadcasting in the second half of the 1920s. Using instruments from that period, they recreate 1920s jazz and popular music exactly as it sounded at the time.

The Jazzistocrats

Herr Nilsen

Marlen Tjøsvoll & The Troublemakers is a jazzy sextet with raw chemistry and seductive energy. With tight interplay and strong stage presence, they create concerts full of nerve, mystery and intensity. In tandem with Marlen's masterful vocal delivery, The Troublemakers take the audience through hypnotic grooves and open musical landscapes, where the expression balances between the elegant and the untamed.

Marlen Tjøsvoll & The Troublemakers

Oslo Konserthus

Frank/Kompen Quintet: Lars Frank (saxophone), Kristoffer Kompen (trombone), David Skinner (piano), Stig Hvalryg (bass), Hermund Nygård (drums).

Frank/Kompen Quintet

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

Jazz on a Summer's Day is a tribute band to Anita O'Day and inspired by the iconic film from the Newport Jazz Festival of the same name. Varied and catchy jazz played by experienced and skilled musicians. Music by Ellington/Strayhorn arranged especially for the band by Tony Ascanio.

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Prima Vista Social Club has become the talk of promoters and musicians in just a few short years, and has made a name for itself as a rollicking party band! The group plays crowd-pleasing swing, blues, salsa and jump 'n' jive, inspired by the hard-swinging music of the 1940s and '50s, with Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Ray Charles and Brian Setzer, among others, as its role models.

Prima Vista Social Club

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

Live Foyn Friis from Asker has studied the old jazz singers from childhood. In particular, Live has brought many of the songs from the repertoire of the great Sarah Vaughan into her own band. She was nominated for the Danish Spellemann Prize with her four albums in the categories of Vocal Jazz Album of the Year and Special Release of the Year at the Danish Music Awards. She won the title of Young Jazz Composer of the Year and, on the same occasion, was named Denmark's new jazz star! Live Foyn Friis now lives in Norway.

LIVE FOYN FRIIS QUINTET

A highly creative concert experience is set to take place at Herr Nilsen this Wednesday evening! Live is back in Norway after an extended stay in Denmark, where she was honored with prestigious jazz awards: "Denmark's New Jazz Star" and "Young Jazz Composer of the Year." Caledonia Jazzband (founded in 1982 in Oslo) is a Norwegian jazz group consisting of Carl Petter Opsahl on clarinet (initiator), Eystein C. Husebye on trombone, Eyvind Ellingsen on guitar, banjo and vocals, Anders Aarum on piano, Christian Frank on bass, and Bjørn Olufsen on drums.

Caledonia Jazzband & Live Foyn Friis

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

Chamber jazz ensemble led by vocalist Erlend Bornhoffer, a smaller-ensemble counterpart to The Jazzistocrats, recreating the polished studio jazz of late-1920s New York.

Sinful Syncopaters

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

With Elisabeth Krohn-Hansen out front, the Krohn-Hansen Kvintett plays traditional jazz with a twinkle in the eye. Inspired by musicians such as Radka Toneff and Susanne Sundfør, the vocalist delivers well-known jazz lyrics with a distinctive tone and strong stage presence. Alongside her are seasoned jazz musicians who will soon celebrate 40 years of playing together in various settings. Together they combine the traditional with improvisatory playfulness and personal interpretations.

KROHN-HANSEN KVINTETT

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

Swing jazz, Latin, blues and ballads by Svein Erik Martinsen (guitar, vocals), Kristoffer Kompen (trombone), David Skinner (piano), Stig Hvalryg (bass) and Marcus Lewin (drums).

Kristoffer Kompen & Svein Erik Martinsen with David Skinner Trio

Solo piano concert by David Arthur Skinner, performing arrangements of well-known and lesser-known pieces from the early 1900s, Norwegian folk songs in jazz style, and original compositions.

David Skinner Solo Piano

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

Norway's hottest band still goes by Hot Club de Norvège, and it's back! The new Hot Club is made up of superguitarist Gildas Le Pape (ex-Satyricon), founder Svein Aarbostad (double bass), multi-instrumentalist Finn Hauge (violin, harmonica) and newcomer Ola Erlien, a guitar virtuoso who has taken the Norwegian stringswing scene by storm. Expect a hard-swinging experience!

Hot Club de Norvège

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

Norwegian Jazz Kings

The Hot Jazz Trio is ready to take audiences on a musical journey back to the 1920s and 1930s and the "hot" jazz of that era. They have refined their sound and drawn inspiration from heroes such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Earl Hines, Jelly Roll Morton and Baby Dodds. The trio recreates the spark and spontaneity of those recordings with original arrangements and stories about the songs and the artists behind them.

Hot Jazz Trio

Swinging band focusing on 40s and 50s vocal jazz, with Frank Sinatra as a central figure, reinterpreting classic songs by Gershwin, Porter, Weill, Mancini, and Rogers & Hart in a contemporary jazz idiom.

The Sinatra Songbook

Majken Christiansen sings swing jazz in the tradition of the great jazz divas, with Ella Fitzgerald as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. Majken, from Copenhagen and based in Oslo, brings an open and contemporary style to her performances, conveying the timeless lyrics and melodies of the golden age of jazz with warmth, honesty and conviction.

Majken Christiansen Quintet

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

Staffan William Olsson, Swedish jazz guitarist, arranger and bandleader, performs jazz versions of pop songs from different eras alongside typical jazz standards. Repertoire includes ABBA, Nancy Sinatra, Lill Lindfors, Torbjørn Egner and Willie Nelson.

STAFFAN WILLIAM - OLSSON TRIO

Billie Holiday's voice and Lester Young's saxophone were made for each other, and it works just as well in small groups as with larger bands.

Tribute to Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Maiken Kroken & Dave Edge Kvintett

Caledonia Jazzband with guest soloist Norbert Susemihl, German-born New Orleans-style trumpeter.

Caledonia Jazzband & Norbert Susemihl

Jazzkafeene introduces the next generation: young trumpeter Zacharias "Zach" Ellingsen and pianist Philip Granly, with vocalist Majken Christiansen performing elegantly re-arranged swing jazz in the tradition of the great jazz divas.

Majken & Zach

Tor Einar "Dr" Bekken is a phenomenal pianist and vocalist who, together with his Bookerizers, delivers uncompromising, hard-hitting and rolling boogie woogie, interspersed with soft ballads and original compositions. Inspiration is drawn from, among others, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Piano Red and Albert Simmons.

Dr Bekken & The Bookerizers

Mas Que Nada is a very charming bossa nova ensemble that plays, among other things, "Girl From Ipanema," "Armandos Rumba," "Ambassanova" and "Musik skall byggas utav glädje." Jobim, Lindfors, Vreeswijk, Sunde, in Portuguese, Swedish and Norwegian.

Mas Que Nada with Bruna Santana and Harald Bergersen

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.

New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub

Nov 7, 2026

Majken & Zach

Nov 11, 2026

Dr Bekken & The Bookerizers

Nov 28, 2026

Mas Que Nada with Bruna Santana and Harald Bergersen

Dec 9, 2026

Magnolia Jazzband

Oct 28, 2026

The Jazzistocrats

Oct 17, 2026

Marlen Tjøsvoll & The Troublemakers

New Orleans Workshop Jazzclub