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Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

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Active from
  
1988

Genre
  
Jazz

Albums
  
Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

Members
  
Aki Takase, Misha Mengelberg, Henry Lowther, Paul van Kemenade, Benny Bailey

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The Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is a large German jazz ensemble led by Alexander von Schlippenbach. The orchestra performs orchestral jazz and experimental big band music and has included in its ranks such leading musicians as Misha Mengelberg and Kenny Wheeler. The orchestra, which performs rather infrequently, was founded in 1988 by Schlippenbach and has commissioned works by Carla Bley, Manfred Schoof, and Willem Breuker, among others.

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Original members

  • Henry Lowther
  • Thomas Heberer
  • Axel Dörner
  • Bruno Leicht
  • Felix Wahnschaffe
  • Gerd Dudek
  • Evan Parker
  • Walter Gauchel
  • Rudi Mahall
  • Dan Gottshall
  • Marc Boukouya
  • Jörg Huke
  • Utz Zimmerman
  • Aki Takase
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach
  • Nobuyuki Ino
  • Paul Lovens

    • Discography

  • Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (ECM, 1990)
  • The Morlocks and Other Pieces (FMP, 1994)
  • Live in Japan '96 (DIW, 1998) with Aki Takase

    • Songs

    Reef und kneebusBerlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra · 1990
    Open the Box2007
    Suite Childhood: Waltz for Debby2007

    References

    Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Wikipedia
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