Description:
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra focuses on the performance of and the research on orchestral jazz, while avoiding the entertainment music that is but all too common for big band orchestras. The orchestra consciously concentrates its efforts on the other side of the big band repertory, on music written from and artistic perspective. In the past years, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra realized concerts and CD productions with unknown works from the following composers, arrangers and band leaders: Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, George Handy, Rob Madna, Gerry Mulligan, Boyd Raeburn, Jerry van Rooijen, Billy Strayhorn, Claude Thornhill |