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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 ...