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Metropole Orkest

The Metropole Orkest is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world.

A hybrid orchestra, it combines jazz, big band and classical symphony orchestra styles. Comprising between 52 and 97 musicians, it is versatile across many musical forms, and is equipped with a "double rhythm section" – one for pop and rock, and one for jazz based music.

The Metropole Orkest was founded in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden at the urging of officials from Netherlands Public Broadcasting, which manages and subsidizes the orchestra. The name of the group was suggested by van der Linden, one of the musicians, who led the ensemble for 35 years until he stepped down in 1980. He was replaced by Rogier van Otterloo, who led the group until his sudden death in 1988. Dick Bakker then held the baton until 2005, when Vince Mendoza took over. He gave the orchestra a more international character. In August 2013, Jules Buckley took over the position of chief conductor from Mendoza.

Take Me Downtown, It's a Hot Summer Night

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 27, 2019

The first broadcast of the Summer includes hot new releases from saxophonists Pureum Jin and Stan Getz, flutist Ragan Whiteside, pianist Yoko Miwa, vocalist Lauren Henderson, and the Ed Palermo Big Band, with birthday shout outs to Sammy Cahn, Manny Albam, Jaimie Branch, Cyndi Lauper, Sue Raney and Deborah Weisz, among others. Happy Solstice !

The Metropole Orchestra: Tabloid Suite

by Jack Bowers
December 3, 2004

The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, formed in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden, was inspired by and patterned after bandleader Paul Whiteman's seminal Concert Jazz Orchestra, for which Ferde Grofé served as chief arranger from 1919-33. It was Grofé who orchestrated George Gershwin's groundbreaking “Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 and his Concerto in F for piano and ...

The Chesterfield Arrangements / Kodachrome

By Metropole Orkest

Label: Basta
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disc 1 -- Powerhouse; Mexican Jumping Bean; The Penguin; Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals; Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner; Egyptian Barn Dance; The Toy Trumpet; Tia Juana; Christmas Night in Harlem; Celebration on the Planet Mars; The Happy Farmer; Bumpy Weather Over Newark; War Dance for Wooden Indians; Suicide Cliff; Minuet in Jazz; Siberian Sleighride; Twilight in Turkey; Powerhouse (59:31). Disc 2 -- Hertz Theme; Secret Agent; Birdseed Special (a.k.a. Canary Concerto); Fiddle No Further; Fifinella; Egyptian Summer (a.k.a. Love Dance); Kodachrome; Naked City; Minor Prelude (a.k.a. 2nd Prelude); The Bullfighter and His Piccolo; Dreary Weather on 6th Avenue; Carrier Pigeon; Symphony Under the Stars; Rococo; Two Young Ladies in a Saxophone School; City of New York; Confusion Among a Fleet of Taxicabs Upon Meeting with a Fare (44:45).

The Metropole Orchestra: The Chesterfield Arrangements / Kodachrome

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2002

Raymond Scott's is a name I'd never associated with Jazz. After hearing these recent recordings by the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra of Scott's music from the mid-'30s through the late '50s, it still isn't. Lovely music, though, light years ahead of much of what is being unloaded on the public these days. Disc 1, The Chesterfield Arrangements, ...