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Horizons Jazz Orchestra
The Horizons Jazz Orchestra (HJO) has 16 of South Florida’s best JAZZ musicians who play very challenging Jazz Orchestrations from modern-day composers. The Horizons Jazz Orchestra is directed by Musical Director, and trombonist Michael Balogh.
A Big Band that really gets you hopping, gives you that South Florida vibe—some swing, some out there—but always with that Stan Kenton feel that just gets you tapping in your seat. From Contemporary Big Band to traditional jazz standards, swing and blues, the group has played conventions, jazz dinners, weddings, parties, and anything FUN that you can think of!!!
The Horizons Jazz Orchestra can range from a sextet to a full 16-piece band.
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Horizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side
by Jack Bowers
One question that springs to mind when listening to The Brite Side, a tantalizing new CD by the South Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra, is: who is Lee Harris? As it turns out, Harris was a composer, arranger and baritone saxophonist who teamed with trumpeter Dennis Noday a few years back to co-found an ensemble they named Superband. Shortly afterward, Harris became ill and was unable to continue, so Noday and Superband's lead trombonist, Michael Balogh, renamed the ensemble the Horizons ...
read moreHorizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side
by Edward Blanco
The south Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra (HJO), present their debut album, The Brite Side, performing five original Lee Harris compositions and also five standards sporting fresh new Harris arrangements, for a compelling package of big band music that is a pleasure to hear. Founded in 2016 by Stan Kenton alumnus Dennis Noday, and former baritone saxophonist & arranger (in the New York studio scene during the 1960s) Lee Harris, the group was known as the Superband before morphing into its ...
read more“A compelling package of big band music that is a pleasure to hear. What a delicious plate of big band music, as The Brite Side truly succeeds in serving quite a dish of powerful and memorable swinging big band music, deeply-rooted in the Kenton tradition, a plus for any ensemble.” —Ed Blanco, All About Jazz
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Horizons Jazz Orchestra
Location: Miami
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
