Jazz Articles about The National Youth Jazz Orchestra

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National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jazz in Film

by Jack Bowers
March 25, 2004

National Youth Jazz Orchestra Jazz in Film Silva Screen 2004

This is the twenty-second album in my library by Britain’s remarkable National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and the first one that I’ve not thoroughly enjoyed. (Well, it was bound to happen one day.) Can’t blame NYJO for that, however; Bill Ashton’s young charges are as bright and chipper as ever, and so we must look elsewhere for the shortcomings. There are two, actually — first, ...

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The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: The Very Best of NYJO

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

This new four–disc boxed set raises to twenty the number of albums in our library by Great Britain’s outrageously talented National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and a strong case could be made that every one of them represents The Very Best of NYJO, as nothing that orchestra does is less than spectacular. That is certainly the case here as NYJO departs on Discs I and II from its customary practice of focusing largely on new and original compositions to survey the ...

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The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: 47 Frith Street

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

Although the competition is getting ever keener, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra remains No. 1 among Great Britain's big bands, as affirmed in the country's most recent poll and reinforced by their latest recording, another remarkable tour de force whose wonderful compositions and arrangements are given typically excellent readings by an orchestra that shows no weaknesses and takes no prisoners. As has become customary for NYJO in recent years, the recording was made before an audience at Ronnie Scott's Club ...