Kongsberg Jazz Festival
Kongsberg Jazzfestival is a music festival that has been held annually in Kongsberg ( Viken ) since 1964 and has a strong focus on jazz . It is the most important Norwegian jazz festival along with the Oslo and Molde jazz festivals. It takes place in early July.
The festival was originally organized by the Jazz Evidence jazz club , but has quickly become independent. Today the festival is organized as a foundation . The Kongsberg Jazz Festival also includes free jazz and other styles of improvised music.
At the Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2018, 38,000 tickets were sold, which is also the previous visitor record. Half was accounted for by two major events, the rest by club concerts that were more or less sold out.
DnB NOR prizes
In cooperation with bank DnB NOR, a prize of 100,000 kroner (approx. € 12,500) (2011 - 300,000 kroner) will be given to the most outstanding Norwegian jazz artist of the year.
Previous winners are:
- Eirik Hegdal 2018
- Marius Neset 2017
- Susanna Wallumrød 2016
- Ellen Andrea Wang 2015
- Mathias Eick 2014
- Håkon Mjåset Johansen 2013
- Ola Kvernberg 2012
- Arve Henriksen 2011
- Maria Kannegaard 2010
- Ole Morten Vågan 2009
- Helge Lien 2008
- Morten Qvenild 2007
- Håvard Wiik 2006
- Solveig Slettahjell 2005
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten 2004
- Live Maria Roggen 2003
- Håkon Kornstad Trio ( Håkon Kornstad , Paal Nilssen-Love and Mats Eilertsen ) 2002
- Christian Wallumrød 2001
- Petter Wettre 2000
- Audun Kleive 1999
- Sidsel Endresen 1998
- Bugge Wesseltoft 1997
- Nils Petter Molvær 1996
International participants
Non-Scandinavian jazz musicians performed here a. a. John Scofield , Bill Frisell , Don Cherry , Ornette Coleman , Cecil Taylor , Sonny Rollins , Herbie Mann , Diana Krall , Elvin Jones , Bill Evans (1970), Betty Carter , Stan Getz , Sonny Stitt , Dianne Reeves , McCoy Tyner , Michel Petrucciani , Carla Bley , Roland Kirk , Yusef Lateef , Dollar Brand , Charles Mingus , Brad Mehldau , John Zorn , Bobby McFerrin and, right at the beginning of 1965, Krzysztof Komeda .
Web links
- Kongsberg Jazz Festival website (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sales record at this year's festival , kongsbergjazz.no/en/, accessed April 14, 2019
- ↑ DnB NOR prisen blir norges største jazzpris (Norwegian) . Archived from the original on May 17, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2011.