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Westchester Jazz Orchestra

The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a unique cultural resource that celebrates America's great jazz tradition with high quality concerts and jazz education programs. We commission original musical arrangements for our theme-based concerts and conduct educational seminars to help student jazz bands improve their ensemble playing and improvisational skills. Our musicians are reknowned jazz artists of the highest caliber.

Maiden Voyage Suite

By Westchester Jazz Orchestra

Label: WJO
Released: 2012
Track listing: Prologue; Maiden Voyage; Eye of the Hurricane; Little One; Interlude; Survival of the Fittest, Part One; Survival of the Fittest, Part 2; Dolphin Dance; Epilogue.

Westchester Jazz Orchestra Performs Greatest Hits On December 1st -- Multi-grammy-winner Alan Broadbent To Guest Conduct

October 19, 2012

Westchester, NY – The 16-piece Westchester Jazz Orchestra has risen to prominence for their “stunning performances” and “brilliant ensemble playing” (Jazz Journal) — and for the 150-plus new arrangements commissioned by the group. On Saturday, December 1, WJO will treat fans to the best of these works in “10th Season Retrospective: Our Greatest Hits.” Jazz radio ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Dobbs Ferry, NY, September 29, 2012

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
October 11, 2012

Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaster's SchoolDobbs Ferry, NYSeptember 29, 2012The much-acclaimed Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO) opened its 10th season with a program called West Side Stories, based on that brilliant and timeless 1957 Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. In keeping with the WJO's ongoing educational objectives, the concert began with ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra Begins Milestone 10th Season On September 29th -- West Side Story Inspires Opening Concert In Dobbs Ferry

August 24, 2012

Westchester, NY: A runner up for “Best Big Band” in the national JazzTimes readers’ poll, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra has made its mark creating and performing their engaging and exquisite repertoire. To kick off the group’s milestone 10th season, WJO will put a big band spin on Leonard Bernstein’s musical “West Side Story." Jazz radio personality ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 21, 2012

Imagine a painter, sculptor or writer attempting to recreate a masterpiece done by a Picasso, Michelangelo or Shakespeare. The task redefines challenge and chutzpah. While jazz recreations are more common than those in other arts--Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's marvelous revisit (Americana Music, 2004) of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958), ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra To Perform Bossa! Tango! Flamenco! On January 28 In Irvington

January 6, 2012

Music of South America and Spain showcased by world-class group Westchester, NY—The Westchester Jazz Orchestra—"the best we've had since those wonderful aggregations headed by Duke Ellington, Count Basie" (JazzScan.com)—will perform Bossa! Tango! Flamenco! on Saturday, January 28 at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY. WBGO's Gary Walker is set ...

Maiden Voyage Suite

By Westchester Jazz Orchestra

Label: WJO
Released: 2011
Track listing: Prologue; Maiden Voyage; Eye of the Hurricane; Little One; Interlude; Survival of the Fittest, Part One; Survival of the Fittest, Part 2; Dolphin Dance; Epilogue.

Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 22, 2011

Fiore all'occhiello dell'odierno jazz orchestrale di New York, la Westchester Jazz Orchestra prova a rivisitare il classico album Maiden Voyage di Herbie Hancock. Questi arrangiamenti per big band tessono nuove trame intorno ad alcune composizioni divenute oggi fondamentali nel repertorio jazz. Aggiornate soluzioni orchestrali rileggono il modello con atmosfere swinganti ed efficaci, e con pregevoli assoli ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra To Perform Piano Masters Concert On December 3 In Irvington

October 18, 2011

"You must make it your business to see . . . WJO . . . this year," concluded the Huffington Post's review of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra's season opener in September. Music fans will have an opportunity to follow that directive as the sixteen-piece big band continues their season with Master Keys: The Music of Bill ...