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Article: Album Review

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 ...

Album

Stepping Stones

By National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Label: NYJO
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Stepping Stones

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

My first thought on hearing a new recording by Great Britain’s remarkably talented National Youth Jazz Orchestra (the collection numbers 16) is always, “This has to be the best thing they’ve ever done,” followed immediately by “I can’t believe everyone in that band is under 25, and that many of them are still teen–agers.” Musicians their ...