National Youth Jazz Orchestra – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonIt must be tough having both "jazz" and "youth" in your title. Elsewhere in culture, from pop to fashion, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra's contemporaries are welcomed just for being young. But the musicians of NYJO make work that takes time. And the orchestra's traditions can seem remote, too. Its sound is rooted in big-band styles that were receding when NYJO was founded in 1965.The reconstituted, revitalised NYJO still plays swinging jazz, but it has expanded its ambit...

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