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New Jazz Orchestra: Camden '70
by Duncan Heining
Colosseum toured with theNew Jazz Orchestra in 1970 but this is the first time that any records of that tour have surfaced. Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Tony Reeves featured in both bands. The New Jazz Orchestra recorded so little, that anything new is welcome. That it should be this good is an embarrassment of riches. True the sound is far from perfect, occasionally the ensembles seem a little ragged (Monitors! What monitors?) and some of the woodwind solos are ...
read moreNew Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe
by Duncan Heining
I remember reading about this record in Melody Maker when it came out. These were all the people I admired in one band! Yet I never ever saw a copy until one day twenty years later in a record shop in Ipswich, I pulled this gem from the racks. £2.50! I couldn't believe the price or the condition. Twenty years of searching and the music didn't disappoint.In fact, New Jazz Orchestra director, Neil Ardley, did issue the album ...
read moreAndrew Rathbun Releases New Jazz Orchestra Recording on Origin Records Composer-Arranger Sets Margaret Atwood Poems to music on 2-CD set
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Continuing a prolific streak over the past two decades, saxophonist-composer-arranger Andrew Rathbun premieres three new suites of moving, meaningful music on his triumphant large ensemble debut for Origin Records. Two of the suites, “Two Islands” and “Power Politics,” are set to the evocative poetry of Margaret Atwood, who has enjoyed a rediscovery in the wake of the popularity of the Golden Globe-winning original series on Hulu, The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the Toronto native’s darkly dystopian and some would say ...
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NYC Welcomes El Sistema From Venezuela's New Jazz Orchestra - Simon Bolivar Big Band Jazz
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Dianna Giadagnino
October 31, 2011 to November 4, 2011 New York City welcomes Venezuela's world-renowned “El Sistema" Simón Bolívar Big-Band Jazz (SBBBJ) with a concert series of four performances from October 31, 2011—November 4, 2011. Led by Venezuelan percussionist, Andrés Briceño, the Simón Bolívar Big-Band Jazz will perform new and traditional big band repertoire during their historic, inaugural visit to the United States. This significant trip is a good-will tour by the SBBBJ-Venezuelan musicians, all of them products of the internationally-recognized “El ...
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