Prom 38: National Youth Jazz Orchestra – review

Royal Albert Hall, London"The lights are low," the BBC announcer inaccurately informed a packed and brightly lit Royal Albert Hall, to put the radio audience in the mood for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra's late-night Prom. In the 47th year of this influential band's existence (Guy Barker and Amy Winehouse were once members), NYJO was marking the retirement of its founder Bill Ashton, the arrival of new director and trumpeter Mark Armstrong, and the launch of a CD fittingly entitled The Chang...

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