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The Metropole Orchestra: Tabloid Suite
by Jack Bowers
The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, formed in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden, was inspired by and patterned after bandleader Paul Whiteman's seminal Concert Jazz Orchestra, for which Ferde Grofé served as chief arranger from 1919-33. It was Grofé who orchestrated George Gershwin's groundbreaking “Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 and his Concerto in F for piano and orchestra the following year, and who wrote a number of picturesque tone poems for Whiteman's ensemble including the Madison Square Garden Suite, Ode to ...
read moreThe Metropole Orchestra: The Chesterfield Arrangements / Kodachrome
by Jack Bowers
Raymond Scott's is a name I'd never associated with Jazz. After hearing these recent recordings by the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra of Scott's music from the mid-'30s through the late '50s, it still isn't. Lovely music, though, light years ahead of much of what is being unloaded on the public these days. Disc 1, The Chesterfield Arrangements, consists of music written by Scott for his Quintette and played while he was appearing regularly in 1937-38 on bandleader Paul Whiteman's weekly radio ...
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