-It is thanks to the then daily free concerts where I first got eyes to different types of jazz music that I got the taste of this genre, she says, and emphasizes the importance of having a good selection in the festival the streets even today, to give people an opportunity to experience music they otherwise would not have had the opportunity to see or would have paid for the ticket.

-It applies only to hear something that sticks in the heart that one can then proceed to, noted she.

And since she has come again and again. All to have been different and had something unique about them, and she says, among other things, about how wonderful it was to see Brian Brown's Quartet, about the year she became Puzzle-saved, flood and not least about the concert with saxophonist legend Sonny Rollins ;

-It was a defining experience, and we were there flew to the sky almost, so great was the!

Jorunn worked and lived in Kongsberg for eight years, and often combine the festival visit with reunion with good friends from that time.

Each year, she made sure to contact the festival and Paul Fidjestøl well before the summer to receive a brand new festival newspaper in order to prepare for concert schedules and discover new talents. But, Although she and festival boss thus have known each other for a long phone, is the first year of the festival's last day of the two support each other and had met face to face.

-There are such people, it's especially fun to visit, he notes, and is delighted that the festival can be a great door opener to the world of music.

Jorunn has no plans to give up jazz festival visit for a long time yet, and look at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival as an awesome way to see and hear talented musicians also by the slightly weirder sort.

- I heard the most in any other type of music, as gospel, but then I discovered the festival and now I am a real jazz lady, she laughs, and hurried off to hear the saxophonist Kornstad on Energy Mill. A performance she has long dreamed of experiencing!