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Issie Barratt: Every Solo Is A New Invitation

by Duncan Heining
January 21, 2020

Issie Barratt is one of the most significant jazz educators in Britain today. From 1999-2004, Barratt was head of Jazz at Trinity College of Music but her role as Artistic Director of the National Youth Jazz Collective has been of even greater importance in developing young jazz talent. Now in its, thirteenth year, NYJC goes from ...

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: 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 ...

Something Old, Something New

By NYJO

Label: NYJO
Released: 2005

NYJO Featuring Atila the Killer Diller: Something Old, Something New

by Jack Bowers
August 15, 2005

Great Britain's superlative National Youth Jazz Orchestra, which celebrates its fortieth birthday in October (how the time does fly!), has had a number of topnotch vocalists through the years, most of them female--Jenny Howe, Annabel Williams, Jacqui Hicks, Lorraine Craig, Sheena Davies, Sumudu Jayatilaka--and now comes their male counterpart, personable Atila Huseyin, nicknamed by the band ...

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

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra Featuring Sumudu Jayatilaka: Who's Blue?

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2001

Unaccustomed as we are to hearing Great Britain’s superlative National Youth Jazz Orchestra play a supporting role, it’s for a good cause here — the debut recording of the band’s exciting young vocalist (nineteen years old when the recording was made), Sumudu Jayatilaka — and NYJO performs its assigned tasks with typical dexterity and aplomb. The ...