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Cosmic Swing Orchestra

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Cosmic Swing Orchestra is a Norwegian jazz orchestra blending a wide range of musical influences with political satire and theatrical performance. Formed in 2018 by pianist and musical director Petter Dalane, the ensemble features several of Norway’s most active young jazz and pop musicians.

Through playfulness, humor, and a strong sense of togetherness, Cosmic Swing Orchestra offers a response to contemporary commercialism, climate denial, and warmongering. The group’s aesthetics, music, and the collective band structure itself resonate conceptually with each other to create a distinctive countercultural expression.

The orchestra has released three albums and performed more than 40 concerts across Norway and Europe, including appearances at Oslo Jazz Festival, Mandaljazz, Stockholm Jazz Festival, and Trondheim Jazzfest. At various times, Cosmic has received financial support from Kulturdirektoratet, FFUK, Midtnorsk Jazzsenter, Norsk Jazzforum, TONO, NOPA, and Trondheim Kommune.

Moldejazz 2026

by Daniel Mège
August 4, 2026

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far away. A single jam session is enough to carry you from sunset to sunrise. At that precise moment, after three in the morning, nothing ...