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National Youth Jazz Orchestra

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra Ltd is a registered charity (no. 274578). In its 54-year history, NYJO has grown from a single jazz orchestra of emerging professionals to be a multi-faceted organisation that works in jazz education at all levels, and all around the country. Our 24-piece Jazz Orchestra remains the gateway to the profession for many future stars of the UK jazz scene, and countless musical theatre and session musicians. NYJO’s alumni include Guy Barker, Laura Jurd, Mark Nightingale and Amy Winehouse, plus the leader of the Strictly Come Dancing band Dave Arch (and most of his band members) and music supervisor for the London 2012 Olympics Martin Koch

Get The Blessing: Pallett

by Neil Duggan
December 15, 2023

Many artists describe their music as aural paintings. Bristol band Get The Blessing take that idea to the next level with their seventh studio album, Pallett. The album cover features a paint by numbers drawing of a wooden pallet to colour in (the limited-edition vinyl comes complete with wax crayons) and all the tracks are named ...

Rob Luft: Burning the Candle at Both Ends

by Peter Jones
November 14, 2023

What kind of musician gets asked to write a concerto for a 65-piece orchestra--the BBC Concert Orchestra, no less--when still in his twenties, and when he has never previously written for an orchestra? Well, somehow or other, UK guitarist Rob Luft is that kind of musician. Writing for an orchestra is something he has ...

London Pride

By National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Label: NYJO
Released: 2006
Track listing: Five Ring Fanfare; London Pride; Citrus Fruit with Bells On; A Nightingale Swang; London; Lisson Groove; My Old Dutch; London

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Two Suites by Paul Hart

By National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Label: NYJCD
Released: 2006
Track listing: Out of Hamelin: An Army Mutters; No Evil Star; Three Notes on the Enraptured Air; Paying the Piper. Theme and Deviations: Elise or Else; Elise

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: London Pride

by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2006

As Great Britain's superb National Youth Jazz Orchestra is now a mature forty years old, it seems appropriate that it should honor the city of its birth, even though director Bill Ashton writes that London Pride was occasioned not by the orchestra's inexorable advance toward middle age, but rather by London's having won the right last ...

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Two Suites by Paul Hart

by Jack Bowers
March 17, 2006

National Youth Jazz Orchestra Two Suites by Paul Hart NYJCD 2006 Two Suites represents a change of pace for Great Britain's splendid National Youth Jazz Orchestra, which has confined its previous albums for the most part to shorter original compositions by a variety of writers with a sprinkling of themes ...

Jasmine

By National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Label: NYJO
Released: 2003
Track listing: Jasmine; Remembrance for Jim; Thought I

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jasmine

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

There are at least four aspects of any new album by Great Britain’s superlative National Youth Jazz Orchestra that any prospective listener can be sure of without even opening the package: (1) it will be marvelously performed; (2) it will be immaculately recorded; (3) it will be generously timed; and (4) it will embody some of ...

Who's Blue?

By National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Label: NYJO
Released: 2001
Track listing: Who