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Article: Album Review

The Qow Trio: The Hold Up

Read "The Hold Up" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Anyone whose musical taste yearns for the type of '50s and '60s sounds of artists such as Sonny Rollins, Jackie Mclean and Lee Morgan, may find The Hold Up is just what they seek. This is the second album from the Qow Trio (pronounced Cow). Taking their name from a composition on Dewey Redman's album, Coincide ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jazz in Film

Read "National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jazz in Film" reviewed by Jack Bowers


National Youth Jazz Orchestra Jazz in Film Silva Screen 2004 This is the twenty-second album in my library by Britain’s remarkable National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and the first one that I’ve not thoroughly enjoyed. (Well, it was bound to happen one day.) Can’t blame NYJO for that, however; Bill Ashton’s ...

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Article: Album Review

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jasmine

Read "Jasmine" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are at least four aspects of any new album by Great Britain’s superlative National Youth Jazz Orchestra that any prospective listener can be sure of without even opening the package: (1) it will be marvelously performed; (2) it will be immaculately recorded; (3) it will be generously timed; and (4) it will embody some of ...

Album

The Very Best of NYJO

Label: Castle Pulse
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disc I

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Article: Album Review

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: The Very Best of NYJO

Read "The Very Best of NYJO" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This new four–disc boxed set raises to twenty the number of albums in our library by Great Britain’s outrageously talented National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and a strong case could be made that every one of them represents The Very Best of NYJO, as nothing that orchestra does is less than spectacular. That is certainly the case ...

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47 Frith Street

Label: Jazz House
Released: 1998
Track listing:

Sweet London Bridge; The Whole Thing; El Rey Pedro; Roxy Beaujolais; Not Really; In the Hour Before Dawn; The Kosher Horses; Late Night Blues; London; New in London; Headache; 47 Frith Street; Will Ye No Come Back Again (77:21).

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Article: Album Review

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: 47 Frith Street

Read "47 Frith Street" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Although the competition is getting ever keener, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra remains No. 1 among Great Britain's big bands, as affirmed in the country's most recent poll and reinforced by their latest recording, another remarkable tour de force whose wonderful compositions and arrangements are given typically excellent readings by an orchestra that shows no weaknesses ...


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