Jazz at MUNCH
Jazz at MUNCH is a series with roots going back to the 1960s, when Karin Krog and Johs Bergh invited artists such as Jan Garbarek, Svein Finnerud, Bill Evans and Egil Kapstad to take part in now-legendary concerts in the museum’s exhibition halls at Tøyen. MUNCH is now carrying on this proud tradition at the new museum in Bjørkvika, with a series of concerts programmed in collaboration with Oslo Jazzfestival.
Program for this fall:
September 24th: Bendik Hofseth - Forest
What role and potential does music have amid the enormous societal changes facing us? For more than five years, musician and composer Bendik Hofseth has been working on his Forest project, an artistic exploration of the importance of nature in a time of unrest and social upheaval.
Now the journey ends with the launch of the Forest box set: four vinyl releases and a book, Trees, a collection of different writers’ relationships with trees placed alongside Edvard Munch’s images of trees.
October 15th: Paal Nilssen-Love - Extra Large Unit
Extra Large Unit’s What just happened? is the result of Paal Nilssen-Love’s exploration of what a concert is – and when it begins. Is it when you enter the venue? When the band goes on stage? When the first notes hit the air? Or did it start the moment you read about it and decided to go?
In the new piece What just happened?, the ensemble expands into Extra Large Unit, featuring 25 musicians on stage alongside dancers from Cattleya Dance Company.
November 26th: SHABAKA
British multi-instrumentalist and composer Shabaka Hutchings is one of the leading lights of the London jazz scene. His bands include Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors. In early 2024, he took a break from the saxophone and became fascinated by the flute and its place in global music cultures. In this solo concert he presents a selection of his reflective, melancholic and transcendental works for many kinds of flute.
More info and tickets can be found on the MUNCH website.