Charity Concert to commemorate the 60 th Anniversary of HM, the King's Blue House Jazz Orchestra of The Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation. Ticket proceeds to be donated in part to Ratchabrachanukhroa Foundation under Royal Patronage.
The Stockholm Concert Hall is famous all over the world for its symphony orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, one of Europe's leading orchestras, and also for the the annual Nobel Prize Ceremony which takes place in the hall.
In 1998 the Stockholm Concert Hall also started a jazz series called Blue House jazz. Blue House Jazz has quickly become a well-reputed trademark and has already presented a number of the world's leading jazz personalities like Keith Jarrett, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Shorter to name a few.
On 22 April 2005 the Stockholm Concert Hall took a unique initiative and introduced its own big band, the Blue House Jazz Orchestra, composed by the pick of Swedish jazz musicians.
"BRILLIANT BASIE EVENING WITH THE PICK
OF SWEDISH JAZZ MUSICIANS" |
After seven seasons with Blue House Jazz the Stockholm Concert Hall has now got its own Blue House Jazz Orchestra, a band for special occasions with the foremost jazz musicians in Stockholm .The opening night was devoted to Count Basie and one can ask oneself why this magnificent orchestra should devote an entire evening to covers, even if it is Basie. But those who had these ideas were completely wrong. Many arrangements were written by Basie people like Neal Hefti, Frank Foster and Sam Nestico, but had been adjusted with a coutious hand by the leaders of the band Magnus lindgren and Peter Asplund. There were also some own arrangements.
And this showed how vigorous the music from the Basie era is, from the end of the 1930s up to the Count's death in 1984, when it is played in such a clever and intelligent way. And with a bunch of brilliant soloists. The orchestra's success at the first concert immediately resulted in an engagement at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July 2005 and also in other invitations.
Blue House Jazz Orchestra is led by two of Sweden 's foremost younger jazz musicians, the trumpet player Peter Asplund and the saxophone/flute player Magnus Lindgren. Both of them are also eminent arrangers and composers.
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BLUE HOUSE JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONCERT 
