Oslo Jazz Festival 2020 partners with Jazzwise for Livestreamed edition
Mike Flynn
Thursday, June 18, 2020
The Norwegian capital’s high-calibre jazz festival will present a livestreamed edition with full band line-ups performing over five nights in August
The Oslo Jazz Festival will take place from 12 to 16 August in a special livestreamed edition with Jazzwise as the festival’s international media partner and with Oslo’s Dagsavisen daily newspaper as its Norwegian media partner. Most concerts will take place with a limited but live audience present at the city’s renowned Nasjonal jazzscene Victoria jazz club, while the opening night will behosted at venue Sentralen. All events will be livestreamed free of charge on the Jazzwise Facebook page at local Oslo time.
The programme features many established and emerging Norwegian jazz musicians, including virtuoso bass maestro Arild Andersen, who appears on the opening night with the Oslo Jazz Ensemble alongside vocalist Torun Eriksen, bassist/singer Ellen Andrea Wang and accordionist Kalle Moberg (7pm, 12 August).
Thursday night’s line-up begins at 5.30pm with a band led by fast rising singer/accordionist Daniela Reyes who’s backed by a band that features pianist Eyolf Dale and bassist Ole Morten Vågan; this is followed by Beady Belle vocalist Beate Lech and the Magnolia Jazzband (8pm) and then a final set from the high-flying bass/piano duo of Ellen Andrea Wang and Jon Balke. Friday 14 August sees performances from celebrated saxophonist Knut Riisnæs’ Quartet with guest vocalist Siril Malmedal Hauge (5.30pm); youthful electronica-influenced septet Finity play fractured and funky originals (8pm) and there are lyrical piano-led sounds from the Espen Eriksen Trio (10.30pm).
Further performances on Saturday 16 August include mellow vocal/guitar duo Siril Malmedal Hauge and Jacob Young (4pm); fiery four-piece Wako (5.30pm); legendary improv quartet The Source (8pn) and Arild Andersen plays a rare performance of his acclaimed 1990 ECM album Sagn (10.30pm). The final night on 16 August features Kongle Trio (4pm) with pianist Liv Andrea Hauge;
altoist Signe Emmeluth’s progressively-skronky quartet Amoeba (6.30pm) and things close out with expansive Nordic folk-jazz sounds from Hardanger fiddle Erlend Apneseth’s Fragmentarium sextet (9pm).
Visit oslojazz.com for info and see the Jazzwise Facebook page for all performances from 12-16 August www.facebook.com/JazzwiseMagazine