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The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

The Danish Radio Big Band featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant at the Attucks Theater

by Mark Robbins
March 12, 2026

Danish Radio Big Band, originally called The Danish Radio Orchestra, just completed its first United States tour in 24 years, performing at a few art festivals and university presenters in South Carolina and Virginia. The band has been under the leadership of Japanese composer/conductor Miho Hazama since 2019. Because the group is a national broadcast orchestra funded ...

The Governor

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Take the "A" Train; In a Mellow Tone; Prelude to a Kiss; Main Stem; Concerto for Cootie; Blue Rose; Perdido; The Governor; Bojangles; Second Line; Mood Indigo; Harlem Airshaft (62:50).

The Power and the Glory: A Salute to Louis Armstrong

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Copenhagan; The Power and the Glory; Someday You

Play Bill Evans

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2002

The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely: Play Bill Evans

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2002

As Jim McNeely observes in the liner notes, the late Bill Evans’ reputation as a great Jazz pianist overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a composer, an oversight the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra seeks to redress by repositioning seven of Evans’ graceful melodies in a big–band framework (with a medley comprised of bassist Scott LaFaro’s “Gloria’s Step” ...

The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: The Governor

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2002

Nearly a third of this splendid album by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, recorded in March 1999 at Copenhagen's JazzHouse, is devoted to “The Governor," conductor Niels Jørgen Steen's enterprising centenary salute to Edward Kennedy Ellington on which ensemble and soloists alike (nine in all) masterfully reanimate the enduring Ellington spirit. The other eleven selections were ...

The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra Featuring Leroy Jones: The Power and the Glory: A Salute to Louis Armstrong

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

We’ve heard a number of recorded tributes to Louis Armstrong during the centenary of that renowned Jazz pioneer’s birth but none more captivating than this one by the superb Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and guest trumpeter Leroy Jones. Louis is gone but his indomitable spirit lives on in stylists like Jones, born and bred, as was ...

The Voice of Silence

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Prologue; Tempus / Pop Art; The Voice of Silence; The Forest; Authenticity; Snapshots; Those Who Build; Joy; Epilogue (72:51).

Impulsive! The Music of Eliane Elias

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Just Kiddin