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UMO Jazz Orchestra: Transit People
by C. Michael Bailey
The spirit of John Coltrane shines brightly through the UMO Jazz Orchestra. The UMO Jazz orchestra made their Naxos Jazz debut among the first six releases from the new label in 1998 with their self-titled disc ( UMO Orchestra, Naxos Jazz 86010). The orchestra performed a bright progressive type of big band jazz that listeners have ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra with Kenny Wheeler & Norma Winstone: One More Time
by Glenn Astarita
One More Time is the latest by Finland’s eminent “UMO Jazz Orchestra”. And as a follow up to their noteworthy 1999 electric-Miles based release aptly titled “Electrifying Miles”, featuring trumpeter Tim Hagans, the band now performs alongside renowned trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and the extraordinary vocalist, Norma Winstone. Wheeler composed all of these pieces as the music ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Celebrates Ellington
by Jack Bowers
Ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jazz immortal Duke Ellington are being accompanied not only by reissues of Duke’s music but by new recordings from groups of all shapes and sizes around the world. Finland’s superb UMO Jazz Orchestra Celebrates Ellington with a charming performance of 14 of his memorable compositions whose earnestness ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Electrifying Miles
by Jack Bowers
I can’t honestly evaluate this disc; the truth is, I can barely listen to it. Finland’s UMO Jazz Orchestra, whose superb release, Selected Standards, was reviewed last month, was kind enough to send this more recent recording in the same package, and while I must thank UMO for its generosity, it has impelled me to make ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Selected Standards
by Jack Bowers
Finland’s superb and customarily adventurous 24–year–old UMO Jazz Orchestra devotes its attention to the Great American Songbook on Selected Standards, reframing these familiar works to suit its Nordic temperament and imparting to them a personality that’s as fresh and invigorating as a tone poem by Sibelius. From the marching drum, dancing piccolo and shifting time signatures ...
Umo Jazz Orchestra
Label: Naxos Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Frozen Petals; All Blues; Aldebaran; What is This?; Bermuda; Blue in Distance; Cuckoo's Nest; Equinox; Life Is A Cobra; Tarkovski.
