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The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: The Voice of Silence
by Jack Bowers
This unconventional album by the DRJO consists of a nine–part suite written by Palle Mikkelborg as “an homage to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art” (which is not in the Louisiana that encircles the mouth of the Mississippi River but in the Danish town of Humlebaek, about 30 km north of Copenhagen). The museum was established ...
The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: Impulsive! The Music of Eliane Elias
by Jack Bowers
The compositions on Impulsive! are by Brazilian–bred Elias, the charts by Kansas City’s Bob Brookmeyer, and they — and the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra — form an impressively cosmopolitan team. Orchestrally speaking, Brookmeyer gets the most out of each of Elias’ half–dozen charming melodies, sketching them in bold and brilliant colors, while the DRJO plays them ...
The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: Nice Work
by Jack Bowers
There is indeed some “nice work” on this new release by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, thanks largely to the DRJO’s world–class stature as a working big band and the imposing talents of chief conductor Jim McNeely whose sharp and swinging arrangement of the Gershwin brothers’ “Nice Work If You Can Get It” was Grammy–nominated this ...
A Little Bit of Duke
By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra
Label: DCC
Released: 1999
Track listing: Bojangles; Come Sunday; Cotton Tail; The Governor; Blue Rose; Rocking in Rhythm; Blue Light; Black and Tan Fantasy/The Mooche; A Little Bit of Duke. (Total Playing Time 63:23).
The Danish Radio Big Band (dacapo: A Little Bit of Duke
by C. Michael Bailey
Centenary. What better opportunity to reconsider European interpretations of Duke Ellington’s music than his 100th birthday. Ellington’s music has woven itself into the fabric of Western Musical Tradition in the same way as Hector Berlioz did. Both men were brilliant orchestrators, arrangers, and finally composers. How appropriate it is for the very fine Danish Radio Big ...
