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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is focused on special projects within the realm of jazz. They are specialised in performing and recording obscure, and often unknown, works by the unsung heroes of jazz. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra has quit a list of rarely performed works of composers, as Mary Lou Williams, George Handy, Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Claude Thornhill, The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, Duke Ellington and now Billy Strayhorn, on it’s name.And so in 1995 The Dutch Jazz Orchestra, lead by Jerry van Rooijen, started a new project and they released the CD “Portrait Of A Silk Threat” on which they presented unknown and never earlier recorded work of Billy Strayhorn

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The Legacy of Billy Strayhorn: the Unknown Strayhorn

by Larry Slater
May 1, 2026

Billy Strayhorn ranks in the top tier of jazz composers, along with Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Jelly Roll Morton.Strayhorn wrote at least one piece a week during the thirty years he worked with Duke Ellington. That was more than the Ellington Orchestra could handle, especially since Duke himself composed constantly. Choices ...

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Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams

By Dutch Jazz Orchestra

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Chief; Aries Mood (A Portrait of Ben Webster); Medi II; Scorpio; O.W.; Scratchin' In The Gravel; Shafi; What's Your Story, Morning Glory; New Musical Express; You Know Baby; Lonely Moments; Ghost of Love; Walkin'And Swingin'.

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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams

Read "Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 31, 2006

The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is known for performing the obscure and neglected works of better-known composers, arrangers and bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Billy Strayhorn, and Gerry Mulligan. With this album, the group continues its historic mission by unearthing and reviving the music of Mary Lou Williams. One of the few women in jazz who ...

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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra / Jerry Van Rooijen: You Go To My Head

Read "You Go To My Head" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2002

His mother called him Bill...the arranger Dayton, Ohio-native William Thomas Strayhorn tooled around forever in the shadow of Duke Ellington. But is that so bad? Truly one of the greatest collaborations in jazz, the Strayhorn/Ellington alliance produced a mountain of standards for the jazz repertoire. Strayhorn alone was credited with composing Ellington's theme ("Take the ...