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Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Stockholm Jazz Orchestra plays Stockholm Jazz Orchestra

Read "Stockholm Jazz Orchestra plays Stockholm Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Chris Mosey


The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra is a world class outfit. Led by veteran trumpet player Fredrik Noren and featuring arrangements by Chicago pianist Jim McNeely, its members come from all over Sweden and beyond in a fascinating meeting of generations. Consider, if you will, the trumpet section where grey-haired, moustachioed Gustavo Bergalli, born 1940 in Buenos Aires (ex-Michel Legrand and Gato Barbieri), sits alongside Karl Olandersson, born 1978, who with his pin-up boy looks and occasional vocals, reminds you of a ...

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Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Sailing

Read "Sailing" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is the second volume by the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra of compositions and arrangements by its talented pianist, Göran Strandberg, following 2000's Lakes (Dragon). As on that earlier album, much of the music is Strandberg's, with half a dozen of his original works complementing inventive arrangements of Harold Arlen's “Come Rain or Come Shine, Jerome Kern's “Yesterdays, Johnny Mandel's “The Shadow of Your Smile and Carla Bley's “Flags.

Strandberg's fertile imagination is conspicuous at the outset with an elliptical approach ...

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The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Tango

Read "Tango" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Stockholm isn’t as far from Buenos Aires as one might have assumed. Faced with the daunting task of adapting Argentina’s most popular dance music to a big–band framework, the Swedes who comprise the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra perform like native–born South Americans in a persuasive session that would no doubt have brought a smile to the lips of the late great tango master Astor Piazzolla. The SJO is staunchly supported in its endeavor by three Argentinians — conductor / arranger Carlos ...

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The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely: Sound Bites

Read "Sound Bites" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As a partisan of straight–ahead big–band Jazz, I approach cautiously any album encompassing Jim McNeely’s music, as I can never be sure before listening which of the two McNeelys may show up, the laid–back moderate or the wild–eyed extremist. Happily, Sound Bites, recorded with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra in ’95 and featuring on four tracks McNeely’s amply endowed teammate in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, saxophonist Dick Oatts, is about as plainspoken and swinging as a big–band date can be. McNeely’s ...

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Do Music Records
2019

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Stockholm Jazz...

Dragon Records
2008

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Sailing

Dragon Records
2005

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Tango

DMP Records
2001

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Sound Bites

Dragon Records
2000

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