Involved in writing and arranging for quite a few big band projects since the 1990s, McNeely was recently appointed artist-in-residence with the Hessian Radio Big Band in Frankfurt, Germany, following intensive collaborations with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, the Metropole Orchestra (Netherlands), the West German Radio (WDR) Big Band and the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra. This year he will also be working with the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, from Portugal.
The one million dollar question seems to be: why is he working mainly with European bands? AAJ contributor Joao Moreira dos Santos spoke with McNeely to find out the answer to that question, and much, much more.
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