Jazz Articles about Dallas Jazz Orchestra

DJO: Thirty Years and Counting

by Jack Bowers
November 6, 2005

I was reminded recently that the Dallas Jazz Orchestra is now more than thirty years old (which I should have known after reviewing its latest album, The Big 3-0, recorded in 2004). That's a long time for any big band to stay together, and would have been true even the in so-called Big Band Era, when no more than a handful of ensembles managed to do so. It's even more remarkable in a country in which bands aren't subsidized, as ...