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Kl: Reflections

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2004

Even though the notion may defy logic, Denmark, a country of less than six million extending from northern Europe’s Jutland peninsula, boasts no fewer than three world-class big bands—the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, pianist/composer Jan Kaspersen’s Special Occasion Band, and this one, the terrific Klüvers Big Band from Aarhus. Klüvers, which takes its name from leader and artistic director Jens Klüver, devotes its latest album to the music of one of America’s outstanding big-band composer/arrangers, Matt Harris, a splendid way ...