Results for "WJO"

Twisting Ways

Label: WJO
Released: 2021
Track listing: Twisting Ways (The Hand/Dialogue/Opening Glimmers/Hope Shadow); Lydian Sky; Fleur Variation 3.

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Twisting Ways

by Jack Bowers
May 21, 2021

For the better part of its latest recording, Twisting Ways, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra may as well scrub the word “Jazz" from its name, as the music mostly bears scant resemblance to that time-honored genre. The overall mood may best be described as funereal, epitomizing themes of a mostly exploratory nature, interrupted all too seldom by ...

Suite 150 / A Big Band Portrait

By Richard Gillis

Label: WJO
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Common Place Fanfare; From Far & Wide; Wenen; Waves; Ontario’s Memories; Here: 49 Degrees 52’ 34” N 97 Degrees 8’ 42” W; The More You Know; In Paradisum; Cirrus; Maple; La Nouvelle Nation (The New Nation).

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Suite 150 / A Big Band Portrait

by Jack Bowers
August 16, 2018

To commemorate Canada's one hundred-fiftieth anniversary in 2017, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra commissioned eleven of the country's foremost jazz composers to write music “reflecting some aspect of Canada or being Canadian." The resulting Suite 150 was performed for appreciative audiences and recorded for posterity in November 2017 and March 2018 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Würzburg Jazz Orchestra

The Würzburg Jazz Orchestra (WJO) was founded in 2005 in Würzburg (Germany) by Markus Geiselhart. Since then the founder and leader has moved to Vienna and, there, works most actively and successfully as a musician, composer and band leader. The WJO is one of the few existing freelance jazz-orchestras in germany. The band-members are not only from the town Wuerzburg itself but also from the entire German and Austrian territory. The WJO has set itself a goal to include in concerts the rarely performed big band literature and compositions of both young European composers and of its band members

Suite Messiah

By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

Label: WJO
Released: 2014

Maiden Voyage Suite

By Westchester Jazz Orchestra

Label: WJO
Released: 2012
Track listing: Prologue; Maiden Voyage; Eye of the Hurricane; Little One; Interlude; Survival of the Fittest, Part One; Survival of the Fittest, Part 2; Dolphin Dance; Epilogue.

Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 21, 2012

Imagine a painter, sculptor or writer attempting to recreate a masterpiece done by a Picasso, Michelangelo or Shakespeare. The task redefines challenge and chutzpah. While jazz recreations are more common than those in other arts--Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's marvelous revisit (Americana Music, 2004) of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958), ...

Maiden Voyage Suite

By Westchester Jazz Orchestra

Label: WJO
Released: 2011
Track listing: Prologue; Maiden Voyage; Eye of the Hurricane; Little One; Interlude; Survival of the Fittest, Part One; Survival of the Fittest, Part 2; Dolphin Dance; Epilogue.

Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

by Dan McClenaghan
September 30, 2011

Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, 1965) was a classic quintet recording from pianist Herbie Hancock, a concept album with the sea as the theme. With a clear view in hindsight, The Westchester Jazz Orchestra's re-imagination of that timeless music with Maiden Voyage Suite seems a natural. The sound of the original had oceanic ebb and flow, from ...