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CJO : Classic Jazz Orchestra

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2007 classicjazzorchestra.org.uk. JELLY’S NEW CLOTHES – CJO001. Morton never got the chance to record his best material in arrangements for big-bands, although it is known that he had written an extensive library of charts. One aim of this project is to attempt to show how these might have sounded and, at the same time, to introduce original ideas and new stylistic concepts just as Morton, ever a forward-looking musician, would have done himself had he lived long enough. Click here to read more].

CJO : Classic Jazz Orchestra

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2007 classicjazzorchestra.org.uk. US-based jazz magazine-style website with comprehensive news, record reviews, message boards etc. RED HOT JAZZ ARCHIVE. Site with huge selection of jazz records up to the mid 1940s, with an emphasis on earlier styles. This is a free site and the sound clips are complete sides, not samples. Site largely devoted to information about Morton, his associates and contemporaries. Directory of bands, musicians, club etc and What’s On listings for Scotland only.

CJO : Classic Jazz Orchestra

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2007 classicjazzorchestra.org.uk. KEN MATHIESON’S CLASSIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA.

CJO : Classic Jazz Orchestra

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2007 classicjazzorchestra.org.uk. WHAT THE PAPERS SAID. From Alison Kerr’s review of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival in The Herald. From Alison Kerr’s review of the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival in The Herald. 8220;The CJO might still be very much in its infancy but it produced some terrific music, thanks partly to Mathieson's imaginative arrangements and to some strong playing… they brought Morton's Dead Man Blues back to life with great panache.”.

CJO : Classic Jazz Orchestra

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2007 classicjazzorchestra.org.uk. Following return to Scotland, worked as a freelance drummer playing all kinds of jazz, theatrical, cabaret, radio and television work. Shorty Rogers, Teddy Wilson, Kai. Winding, Tony Coe, Tal Farlow, Martin Taylor, Carol Kidd, Jimmy Witherspoon etc. His wide-ranging musical interests and arranging skills were further developed in his quintet, Picante, which featured an eclectic mix of bebop, hard-bop and punchy Brazilian music arranged in bop style.