Celebrating Thad Jones: 100 Years

Jazz music has a deep connection with academic orchestral music. This is demonstrated by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in an intriguing collaboration with the DR Big Band, paying musical tribute to the American trumpeter, composer, and arranger Thaddeus Joseph Jones (Pontiac, 1923-Copenhagen, 1986), on the centenary of his birth. Thad Jones' career is stylistically linked to the bebop and hardbop periods, although he always remained close to the mainstream. Jones pursued his musical endeavors in the United States until unexpectedly moving to Denmark in 1978, where many American jazz musicians resided, to take over the Danish Radio Big Band, which he transformed into one of the world's premier jazz ensembles. Leading this celebration is Miho Hazama, the current principal conductor of the DR Big Band, who has also arranged several of Jones' finest pieces for symphony orchestra and big band, and has composed a completely new work for the occasion, in the spirit of her predecessor.

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