“Jazz isn’t dead,” Frank Zappa once remarked. “But it smells funny.”
Well, it didn’t smell funny at all tonight.
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