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The UMO Jazz Orchestra

The UMO Jazz Orchestra: UMO Plays Frank Zappa

by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2004

With a playing time of 16:36 and no liner notes or list of personnel, this brief survey by Finland’s UMO Jazz Orchestra of the music of Frank Zappa is more a demo than a full-fledged album, but I can’t grasp who is being promoted. According to its cover, the album “Features Marzi Nyman,” but as I’m ...

One More Time

By The UMO Jazz Orchestra

Label: A-Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The One More Time Suite (Parts 1

Kari Heinil

By The UMO Jazz Orchestra

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Released: 2001
Track listing: Frozen Petals; All Blues; Aldebaran; What Is This?; Bermuda; Blue in Distance; Cuckoo

The UMO Jazz Orchestra: Kari Heinil

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Finland’s UMO Orchestra looks inward on this album, recorded about four years ago in Helsinki, with ten of its dozen selections and all arrangements by present or former members of the ensemble. There’s a lot of good music on offer, but one must readily concede that it’s an acquired taste. In other words, UMO is emphatically ...

The UMO Jazz Orchestra: One More Time

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

What can one say when the composer is widely acclaimed, the orchestra world–class, and the music (in his opinion) well–written and arranged but singularly unexciting? Well, he could begin by noting that One More Time, the UMO Jazz Orchestra’s collaboration with composer / trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and vocalist Norma Winstone, is far better than its earlier ...