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The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz
Orchestra was established in June 2002 and represents the best young
improvising jazz musicians in Scotland.
Please support this endeavour and the young jazz musicians of
Scotland by making a donation - This will provide these young musicians
with the best opportunities to learn and improve by helping out with
travel expenses, enabling them to play in nation-wide concerts,
experience sessions with professional musicians...
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Supported generously by:
Funded by the Scottish Arts Council's Youth Music
Initiative
About the TSYJO:
Talent, skill, exuberance, verve - the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra showcases each of these traits in every performance. Featuring the high flyers from a tremendous wave of young Scottish jazz players, the orchestra plays with a collective maturity well beyond its members’ years and features soloists of startling ambition and creativity. With a repertoire that makes no concessions to their youth, these young musicians bring alive the music of jazz’s true giants, making the compositions of Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Joe Zawinul, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler sing with enthusiasm, style, personality and expression.
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Upcoming concerts:
- 07. May. 2010 in TSYJO – Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra in Edinburgh at The Lot
- 08. May. 2010 in TSYJO – Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra in Stirling at The Tolbooth
- 09. May. 2010 in TSYJO – Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra in Glasgow at Guinness Room, RSAMD
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EXPLORATION - the album:
The
Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra have just release their first CD
"Exploration" on the Spartacus label.
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"[...] It's a high-energy set that will come as no
small surprise to big band fans expecting a youth-laden ensemble to be good,
but more an exercise in education than invention." (John Kelman, AAJ)
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