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Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

Few sounds equal the thrill of hearing a talented, tight-knit jazz orchestra play live. CJO delivers a swinging rhythm section, high-octane brass and a polished repertoire.

The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is a 17-piece jazz ensemble, featuring many of the finest musicians in the Bay Area. In the long-standing Monday night tradition of New York's Village Vanguard Orchestra, the CJO has been playing Monday nights at Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco for ten years.

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The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Trench Heroes / Monday in the City

Read "Trench Heroes / Monday in the City" reviewed by Jack Bowers


These two albums, recorded three years apart, provide at least a cursory glance at the continuing development of San Francisco’s aptly named Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Trench Heroes was taped in ’98 during a “road gig” at Yoshi’s nightclub across the Bay bridge in Oakland, CA, Monday in the City last December on the orchestra’s “home field,” Jazz at Pearl’s, in San Francisco’s popular North Beach district. The CJO had changed directors in the interim, with Alex Budman replacing charter member ...

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