The spirit of John Coltrane shines brightly through the UMO Jazz Orchestra. The UMO Jazz orchestra made their Naxos Jazz debut among the first six releases from the new label in 1998 with their self-titled disc ( UMO Orchestra, Naxos Jazz 86010). The orchestra performed a bright progressive type of big band jazz that listeners have ...

Album

One More Time

By UMO Jazz Orchestra

Label: Beta
Released: 2000

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Article: Album Review

UMO Jazz Orchestra with Kenny Wheeler & Norma Winstone: One More Time

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 2000

One More Time is the latest by Finland’s eminent “UMO Jazz Orchestra”. And as a follow up to their noteworthy 1999 electric-Miles based release aptly titled “Electrifying Miles”, featuring trumpeter Tim Hagans, the band now performs alongside renowned trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and the extraordinary vocalist, Norma Winstone. Wheeler composed all of these pieces as the music ...

Album

Selected Standards

By UMO Jazz Orchestra

Label: Beta
Released: 1999

Article: Album Review

UMO Jazz Orchestra: Selected Standards

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

Finland’s superb and customarily adventurous 24–year–old UMO Jazz Orchestra devotes its attention to the Great American Songbook on Selected Standards, reframing these familiar works to suit its Nordic temperament and imparting to them a personality that’s as fresh and invigorating as a tone poem by Sibelius. From the marching drum, dancing piccolo and shifting time signatures ...