New Jazz Orchestra
The New Jazz Orchestra was a British jazz - big band that was active from 1964 to 1970.
Band history
The big band was founded in 1964 by the British pianist and composer Neil Ardley . It included leading jazz musicians from the London scene, such as Harry Beckett , Jack Bruce , Ian Carr , Dave Gelly , Michael Gibbs , Dick Heckstall-Smith , Jon Hiseman , Henry Lowther , Don Rendell , Frank Ricotti , Paul Rutherford , Barbara Thompson , Trevor Tomkins and Trevor Watts . They played compositions and arrangements by their members Ardley, Gibbs, Rutherford, Michael Garrick and other players, but also by the composer Mike Taylor . The New Jazz Orchestra has played at events in London, several times on the radio, on tours and festivals in the UK. The band recorded only two albums, 1965 "Western Reunion" for Decca Records and 1968 "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" on Verve Records . Ardley continued to work with its members even after the big band broke up.
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Jazz: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides, ISBN 1-85828-528-3 .
- Neil Ardley - biographical sketch of Eugene Chadbourne in the All Music Guide
swell
- ↑ Around 1970 in Greek Variations with Ian Carr and Don Rendell, or 1973 on the album Mike Taylor Remembered with Jon Hiseman, Barbara Thompson, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Dave Gelly and Norma Winstone .
Web links
- Discussion of "Western Reunion"
- Discographic information on "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" ( Memento from May 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )