Oslo Jazzfestival

Oslo Jazzfestival is the August jazz week in rooms across Oslo. The site oslojazz.com, read on 28 September 2026, already has the aftermovie, says thank you, and announces the 2026 Ella prize for Ellen Andrea Wang. Wikipedia cites that award on 11 August 2026. The archive-talk page, on the festival's own site, sets the week of 9 to 15 August 2026 and says the festival is 40 years old. The contact and booking mail is info@oslojazz.no. The night with closed titles is 11 August 2025.

The Norwegian Wikipedia leaves it established in 1986. The pilot, from 1984 to 1985, was started by Aage Teigen. The first week was built by a little more than forty volunteers, with 350,000 kroner from the municipality of Oslo, and the weight was traditional jazz, Dixieland and New Orleans. The English Wikipedia writes "founded in 1985" and puts beside it that a clarification is needed, and in the same entry says established in 1986. In 1995 it became a foundation, with Truls Helweg as chair and Teigen as permanent director, and the budget was over five million kroner. Teigen received the Oslo city artist prize in 2002. From 2007 to 2019 the director was Edvard Askeland. From 2019 to 2023, Øyvind Larsen. Line Juul has been director since August 2023. The board is chaired by Svein Skarheim. 1986 and the sentence about 40 years in 2026 stay together.

The 2025 opening was Monday 11 August at Cosmopolite. The venue card puts the doors at 17:00 and the start at 18:00. The festival card puts the doors at 16:45 and the same start. The two times stay together. Tickets 450 or 360 kroner, over 18 with identification, unnumbered seats, sold out. A Broadcast listing puts the room at Vogts gate 64. On stage, Joshua Redman, Trondheim Jazzorkester and Eirik Hegdal. Torkjell Hovland, in Jazz i Norge on 12 August 2025, writes that the room was full. The state secretary to culture minister Lubna Jaffery opened, and Hovland was struck by hearing the dialect of Trude Storheim, former head of Vossa Jazz. Line Juul spoke of sold-out concerts and a waiting list to volunteer.

Redman was the festival artist, with three Norwegian contexts that week. The programme says the project began when he was a guest on Space is still the place, a 2006 work by Hegdal. That is the programme note, not a title marked from that night. Hovland writes that they were still marking the 25th anniversary of Trondheim Jazzorkester, which in its sixth year met Redman for the first time at Moldejazz in 2006, when he was festival artist. This was concert number 29, and 2966 days had passed since the previous one. The album Triads and More is from 2009. In the room, Ole Morten Vågan and Tor Haugerud carried the first solo. Nils Olav Johansen whistled with the guitar. Erik Johannessen is in the critic's photo. Last time the violin was Ola Kvernberg. This time it was Tuva Halse, as the substitute. In an improvised duet with cellist Øyvind Engen she lit the theme Country and traded eight-bar phrases with Redman. Hovland compares her fingers with Redman's morning run, and calls him a marathon man. Eroiki also sounded. Hovland declares himself unfit to review it: he says he is married to that piece. The high point he marks, besides Halse, is when Redman and Vågan play. He heard the saxophonist as reserved.

The same critic, in another review of that week, walks the commission Populærmusikk for likesinnede, by Anna Ueland. She had won the festival's USBL talent prize the year before. On stage, Ueland's analogue synths and organ, Hans Hulbækmo's drums, Nicholas Leirtrø's bass, Håkon Brunborg's steel guitar and the strings of Selma French and Selma Edwards Granly. The piece he describes is Låvefest: first a fairground country, in the manner of Rednex, and then tighter chords over the beat. Vivaldi and Kendrick Lamar appear in the presentation he read, not as pieces he names as sounding. Dagsavisen, Geir Rakvaag, on 17 August 2025, says the two biggest concerts closed the week and that nearly one hundred other events showed the width, among them the first full night of Marius Neset and Leif Ove Andsnes at the Opera, with no loose title. Vårt Land, Alf Kjetil Walgermo, on 18 August 2025, closes with Silje Nergaard and Pat Metheny. The photo caption writes Pat Matheny. The two spellings stay together. There are no loose titles there either.

The site, after the 2026 week, still headlines that the outdoor stage returns, that it expands to two stages and six days, that Jazzland turns 30 and that The Source opens with a tribute to Oslo. Europe Jazz Network, on 6 May 2026, was announcing that opening on 9 August at the Opera. That is the announcement, not a walked night. No 2026 title is marked in a review loaded here.