Aarhus Jazz Orchestra

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Klüvers Big Band

The Aarhus Jazz Orchestra is a Danish Big Band of the Modern Jazz , of Aarhus operates from. The formation emerged from Klüver's Big Band in 2012 .

history

Jens Klüver founded a big band with young musicians in Aarhus in 1977, which initially functioned as Bred Ymer , but soon as Klüvers Big Band . Initially an amateur big band, they managed to develop a professional level and repeatedly toured Scandinavia with American or Scandinavian guest soloists such as Mulgrew Miller , John Scofield or Kurt Elling . The orchestra was led by the founder until 2012. The band, which recorded numerous albums, then took on the name Aarhus Jazz Orchestra ; it was initially directed by Lars Møller and currently has various guest conductors such as Kathrine Windfeld and Dafnis Prieto .

In 2001 Butch Lacy brought the orchestra to a work that he wrote to mark the 800th anniversary of Aarhus Cathedral . In 2012, the Danish composer and trumpeter Jakob Buchanan , who is a member of the big band, involved the orchestra in the performance of his Buchanan Requiem , the recording of which won the 2016 Danish Music Awards as Jazz Release of the Year.

occupation

In 2017 the following musicians belonged to the orchestra:

John Scofield (front left) with the formation (2011)

Discography

  • Live Foyn Friis With Aarhus Jazz Orchestra (2017)
  • Aarhus Jazz Orchestra & Claus Waidtløw Apples for Adam (2016, with Adam Nussbaum )
  • Plays Kraftwerk (2016)
  • Jakob Buchanan Buchanan Requiem (2015)
  • ReWrite of Spring (2015, with Dave Liebman and Marilyn Mazur )
  • Mulgrew Miller & Klüvers Big Band Grew's Tune (2012)
  • Veronica Mortensen I'm the Girl
  • Hot House - Thilo Meets Mackrel (2009, with Jesper Thilo and Dennis Mackrel )
  • Otto Brandenburg Galla Memorial (2008)
  • I Had a Ball - Greatest & More (2007)
  • Love Being Here
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Hans Ulrik Other People Other Plans (2005)
  • Klüvers Big Band with Matt Harris Reflections
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Byron Stripling & Dennis Mackrel Better Believe It
  • Good Times
  • Go Global (2000)
  • Sikke Noget Vrøvl (2000, with 750 students from ten Danish schools)
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Vince Herring Tribute to Duke (1999)
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Bob Rockwell , Kjeld Lauritsen Silver Street (1998)
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Deborah Brown Live in Tivoli (1997)
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Carmen Bradford Count On It (1995)
  • Klüvers Big Band Featuring Finn Ziegler & Jesper Thilo The Heat's On (1994)
  • Jasmine: Klüvers Big Band Plays Butch Lacy (1993)

Web links

Commons : Aarhus Jazz Orchestra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grew's Tune: Mulgrew Miller & Klüver's Big Band
  2. ↑ Buchanan Requiem ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Meet the Band