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Millennium Jazz Orchestra

The Millennium Jazz Orchestra is a pure jazz orchestra with professional Dutch, German, English and Brazilian musicians. Since 1990 the orchestra, under Joan Reinders’ leadership, plays a regular monthly concert in Theater Bouwkunde in Deventer (NL), featuring a famous nationally or internationally soloist like Toots Thielemans, Dick Oatts, Kenny Wheeler, Benny Golson, New York Voices, Claudio Roditi, James Moody, Lew Tabackin, Jiggs Whigham, Bobby Shew, Herb Geller, Lee Konitz, Ernie Watts, Charlie Mariano, The Four Freshmen, Bud Shank, Pete Christlieb, Philip Catherine and many others.

Both Sides Now

By Millennium Jazz Orchestra

Label: ZenneZ Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Soon 2. I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do 3. Moon River 4. Something to Live For 5. Detour Ahead 6. Never Will I Marry 7. A Sleepin’ Bee 8. Smile 9. That’s All 10. Both Sides Now 11. I Will Wait For You 12. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jack Bowers
December 19, 2023

2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...

Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Bleeding Amazonia

by Jack Bowers
January 16, 2023

Bleeding Amazonia, the latest album by The Netherlands' superb Millennium Jazz Orchestra, offers clear proof that “music with a message" need not be barren nor bland. Amazonia is a vibrant and colorful eight-part suite by composer / arranger Joan Reinders, whose disheartening theme is the loss of the Amazon rainforest. Four of its movements have lyrics ...

Bleeding Amazonia

By Millennium Jazz Orchestra

Label: ZenneZ Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Prologue (Prólogo); Flora and Fauna (Flora e Fauna; Interlude 1; Indigenious Peoples (Povos indígenas); Deforestation (Desmatamento); Interlude 2; Forest Fires (Incêndos florestais); Climate Change (Mudanca climatica); Interlude 3; Pollution (Poluição); Hope (Esperança).

Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Octopus

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2019

Octopus, the tenth album released by the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in its nearly twenty-five years of impressive music-making in The Netherlands, is actually an eight-part suite by composer / arranger Joan Reinders devoted to one of the sea world's more fearsome and enigmatic creatures. The thematic essay spans the whole nine yards, from “Evolution" and “Environment" ...

Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Lookin' East

by Jack Bowers
April 22, 2017

The Netherlands, with a population less than that of New York State, is home to no less than four of the world's most accomplished jazz ensembles--the Metropole Orchestra, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the Ebony Big Band and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra whose latest album, Lookin' East, does nothing to subvert its status as a ...

Millennium Jazz Orchestra - Safety Zone

By Vincent Veneman

Label: Millennium Jazz Orchestra
Released: 2014

Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Safety Zone

by Jack Bowers
October 16, 2014

With the release of its eighth album, Safety Zone, the Millennium Jazz Orchestra from the Netherlands marks its twenty-fifth year under the astute guidance of composer / arranger Joan Reinders who formed the band in 1989 and recorded for the first time two years later. As interesting as the orchestra's growth as a unit has been ...

Millennium Jazz Orchestra - Pretty Pumps

By Vincent Veneman

Label: Millennium Jazz Orchestra
Released: 2010