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UMO Jazz Orchestra: Selected Standards

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

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 ...

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Umo Jazz Orchestra

By 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.

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Umo Jazz Orchestra: Umo Jazz Orchestra

Read "Umo Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1998

The Big Band at the End of the Century. There are several very fine and innovative Big Bands composing and performing right now. They include the bands headed by Carla Bley, Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, McCoy Tyner, and Bob Mintzer. To borrow from Downbeat magazine, a big band “talent deserving wider recognition" is the Finnish Umo ...

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