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PERSONNEL Trombones Saxes: Bass Guitar Percussion Ethan Weisgard Recorded at Copenhagen JazzHouse,
17 November 2000 Composer and educator GRAHAM
COLLIER was the first British jazz He has since released fifteen
albums, toured the world with various small project, The Jazz Ensemble,
and continues to travel and teach. He is the author of seven books
on jazz,and launched the jazz degree course at the Royal Academy of
Music in London in 1989. Radio Jazz Group and the Danish
Radio Big Band. In the period 1968 to 1992 I commissioned Graham Collier
to write 35 compositions for the two orchestras. Winter Oranges, his
new work, is a long overdue return Author of Secret Crystal, a book about the early days of the Danish Radio Jazz Ensembles. THE DANISH RADIO JAZZ ORCHESTRA is Denmark's national jazz hand. The orchestra was founded
in 1964 and has established itself as an ensemble in the international
jazz elite with bandleaders like lb Glindeman, Ray Pitts, Palle Mikkelborg,
Thad Jones, Ole Kock Hansen, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely (since
January 1999). The orchestra gives concerts both in Denmark and abroad,
and has through the years been the host of hundreds of guests - soloists,
bandleaders and arrangers including Miles Davis, David Sanborn,
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