National Youth Jazz Orchestra

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

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Top Songs

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Main Theme [From "Touch of Evil"]
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Suite [From "Dirty Harry"]
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Nice to Be Around [From "Cinderella Liberty"]
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Dirty Harry / Scorpio / Magnum Force / Sudden Impact [From "Dirty Harry"]
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Tribute to Dudley Moore (30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia / Field Day for Shirley / Bedazzled)

Albums

  • She Said

    Oct 2022 • 11 songs

  • Transition

    Sep 2022 • 1 song

  • The Earth Keeps Spinnin'

    Sep 2022 • 1 song

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National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Biography

In 1965 Bill Ashton, a teacher at a London school, formed the London Schools Jazz Orchestra. This was an organization in which youngsters could pursue musical ambitions in a setting that related to music which interested them, rather than forms imposed upon them by the educational hierarchy. Thanks to Ashton's persistence in the face of establishment hostility the orchestra survived, later becoming known as the London Youth Jazz Orchestra and, eventually, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. In 1974 NYJO became a fully professional organization and remains the UK's only full-tim...
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