A Day Afoot In Central Oslo

Opera Oslo new bldg. — The Oslo Opera House sits at the very end of the Oslofjord. This photo, from Wikimedia Commons, doesn’t really do justice to the building — let alone to its setting.
(Wikimedia Commons)

“Jazz isn’t dead,” Frank Zappa once remarked. “But it smells funny.”

Well, it didn’t smell funny at all tonight.

The Jan Garbarek Group in Oslo — From left, Rainer Brüninghaus on keyboards, Yuri Daniel on the electric bass, Jan Garbarek on the saxophone, and Trilok Gurtu on percussion (Photograph by my wife)

My wife and I and one of our sons walked from our hotel, which is located near the city’s Sentralstasjon, over to the magnificently-sited Oslo Opera House for a concert by the great Norwegian musician Jan Garbarek. He performed with his group as part of the 2016 Oslo Jazz Festival. They were superb, the large opera hall was sold out, and the music was excellent.

It probably comes as a surprise to many, but Oslo is a major jazz center. And a very livable and beautiful city, too.

We had lunch today with our friends who are here with the Norway Oslo Mission and, after the concert, we had a nice dinner of Norwegian specialties (sausages, seafood, and so forth) near our hotel.

Posted from Oslo, Norway

A day afoot in central Oslo