Nyjo Fifty National Youth Jazz Orchestra

• 1 Mama Badgers 09:30
• 2 Dreams 05:31
• 3 Wintermute 06:44
• 4 Rush Hour 07:10
• 5 Sea Master 08:16
• 6 Sub Hub Hubbub 09:07
• 7 No Pão De Açúcar 09:39
• 8 Red Squirrel 08:28
• 9 No Man Is an Island 08:10
• 10 St. Louis Blues 06:11
• 11 He's Just My Bill 07:28
• 12 Ballad for Loos 06:34
• 13 Lullaby of Broadway 05:24
• 14 My Romance 04:05
• 15 Never the Twain 06:43
• 16 What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life? 05:32
• 17 A Foggy Day 07:14
• 18 Going Dutch 05:48
• 19 Finding My Feet 05:09
• Total Runtime 02:12:43

Info for Nyjo Fifty

Aktuelles und Favoriten aus 50 Jahren: Die britische Ausbildungsinstitution feiert Jubiläum.

Das National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) ist ein englisches Jazz-Orchester. Es wurde 1965 von Bill Ashton gegründet und gibt jungen Musikern neben der Möglichkeit, Bigband-Jazz in größeren Konzertsälen, Theatern (Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall) und im Radio und Fernsehen aufzuführen auch die Chance, Alben einzuspielen. Zudem vergibt es Kompositionsaufträge an britische Komponisten und Arrangeure. Zu den bekanntesten Ex-Mitgliedern des NYJO gehören namhafte englische Musiker wie Mark Nightingale, Amy Winehouse, Guy Barker und Gerard Presencer. Anlässlich des fünfzigsten Orchestergeburtstags erscheint eine Doppel-Album, die einen großartigen Einblick in das ziemlich weit gesteckte Repertoire dieser britischen Ausbildungsinstitution bietet. Während auf dem ersten Album verstärkt zeitgenössisches Material zu finden ist, zeichnet sich dem zweiten Album durch eher traditionellere Aufnahmen aus. Zahlreiche Gastsolisten wie Gareth Lockrane (Flöte), Mark Nightingale (Posaune), Julian Siegel (Saxofon) und Zoe Rahman (Piano) tragen zum Gelingen dieser fulminanten Jubiläumskompilation bei.

"It takes only two tracks of this celebratory double album to establish the breadth, maturity and technical excellence of this long-established proving ground of UK jazz talent...the band intersperses fresh-minted arrangements with back-catalogue favourites and full-on blare with gentle balladry and contemporary funk" (Financial Times)

"This youthful orchestra can pack a punch as devastating as any big band anywhere...A splendid affair with excellent performances all round." (Jazz Journal)

"A milestone...These are todays players, equally good at both genres (contemporary and swing) and raring to go." (Jazzwise)

Mark Armstrong, music director
Rosie Stano, flute
Jim Gold, alto saxophone, clarinet
Sam Glaser, alto saxophone, clarinet
David Healey, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Tom Ridout, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jessamy Holder, baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet
Alex Chadwick, baritone saxophone
James Davison, trumpet, flugelhorn
Tom Dennis, trumpet, flugelhorn
James Copus, trumpet, flugelhorn
Tom Gardner, trumpet, flugelhorn
Alistair Martin, trumpet, flugelhorn
Matthew Yardley, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jakes Labazzi, trumpet, flugelhorn
Tom Dunnett, trombone
Owen Dawson, trombone
Chris Valentine, trombone
Maddie Dowdeswell, trombone
Chris Saunders, trombone
Jasper Rose, trombone
James Buckle, trombone
Rupert Cox, piano
Rob Luft, guitars
Nick Fitch, guitars
Joe Downard, bass
David Dyson, drums
Max Mills, percussion
Jessica Radcliffe, vocals

National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)
is a glittering showcase for the UK’s finest young professional jazz musicians, combining a hard-swinging rhythm section and a raft of hugely talented soloists, to bring you the very best in British big-band jazz. Under the Artistic Direction of Mark Armstrong, the 23-piece orchestra perform around 40 concerts a year nationally and internationally, and aim to inspire the next generation of young jazz musicians with education work wherever they tour. Over its 53-year history, NYJO has helped launch the careers of many of the country’s most renowned jazz musicians including Guy Barker, Amy Winehouse, Mark Nightingale, Gwilym Simcock and Mercury Award Nominee Laura Jurd.

NYJO’s recent highlights include a highly acclaimed appearance at the BBC Proms in August 2018, and a collaborative concert tour in September 2018 to Germany and Holland with their German and Dutch national youth jazz orchestra equivalents BuJazzO and NJJO entitled Three Nations Under One Groove.

Mark Armstrong
was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne but brought up in Amersham where he attended Dr Challoner’s Grammar School. took a degree in Music at Oxford University and attended the postgraduate course in jazz and studio music at the Guildhall School of Music, gaining an LGSM in Jazz.

Mark’s playing career has included a wide variety of styles and genres. He was a member of Clark Tracey’s Quintet for seven years, recording two albums, The Calling (2003) and The Mighty Sas (2006) and played regularly with Clark’s father Stan Tracey, recording with Stan on his final quintet album The Flying Pig (2013) and with Stan’s big band live from the 2006 Appleby jazz festival as well as performing with the big band at the 2009 BBC Proms. Mark’s work as a sideman has also seen him playing Latin Jazz with Robin Jones’s Sextet, Mainstream and traditional jazz with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and bebop with Peter Long’s Gillespiana in which the Times’s Alyn Shipton described his playing as “pirouetting through Gillespie’s breaks quicker than a hummingbird’s wings” and John Fordham of the Guardian described him as “the solo star of the outfit”. Mark was nominated in the best trumpet category of the 2007 Ronnie Scott Jazz Awards. Mark still performs regularly as a jazz trumpet player: as a member of the Ronnie Scott Jazz Orchestra and in his own quartet, which released the Album Coastbound in 2010.

Mark’s career as a conductor began at Oxford where he helped to resurrect the Oxford University Big Band. After joining the National Youth Jazz Orchestra he was asked by founding Music Director Bill Ashton to act as his assistant, a position he maintained for almost 15 years before being appointed as NYJO’s Artistic and Music Director in 2011. Since this appointment the orchestra has recorded its first studio album for many years, The Change, and appeared at the 2012 BBC Proms concerts: one of the few Proms to be televised that year, and the London Jazz Festival in 2012 and 2013.

Mark’s additional education work includes his position as Jazz Professor at the Royal College of Music, which combines academic lecturing and practical coaching and tuition, lecturing in composition at the London Centre of Contemporary Music, and teaching the trumpet at James Allen’s Girls’ School. Mark is also a jazz moderator and trainer, and both main panel and jazz examiner for the ABRSM.

Mark is a past winner of the BBC Big Band Competition arranging prize, and many of his big band compositions can be heard on recent NYJO albums. A recent commission, the Solstice Suite for big band was performed at the 2009 North Sea Jazz Festival. He writes a wide range of arrangements and compositions from choral music to symphony orchestra.

Mark lives in South East London with his wife, conductor Elinor Corp and children Rosie, Henry and Lucy.

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