KJRO

The Kentucky Jazz
Repertory Orchestra

*The Hepcats favorite band!*

Co-directed by University of Kentucky School of Music Professors Dick Domek & Miles Osland.
			The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra (KJRO) is a 17-member professional ensemble dedicated to the preservation and performance of jazz music. KJRO members consists of the finest and most talented faculty, alumni and musicians from Kentucky area colleges and universities. KJRO is a band that is especially suited for and highly skilled at recreating authentic swing-era arrangements. The picture to the left is from KJRO's 2009 CD, Flying Home, recorded especially for swing dancers! Click here for info about that CD.

KJRO's book primarily consists of original swing-era arrangements of classics songs by such great Big Bands as:

Duke Ellington	Jimmie Lunceford	Count Basie		Benny Goodman	Artie Shaw


Tommy Dorsey	Louis Armstrong	Lionel Hampton		Harlan Leonard	Glenn Miller

The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra would like to play for your event!
For booking information, contact Mike Richardson at 859-42-2426, info@luv2swingdance.com or Dick Domek, 859/257-1966 or email: dicty@uky.edu.

The KJRO is co-directed by University of Kentucky School of Music Professors Dick Domek & Miles Osland. Dick Domek is a Professor of Music Theory at UK. His research interests include jazz transcriptions and arranging, composition, technology, musical style, and the analysis of jazz and jazz styles, especially the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Miles Osland is a Professor of Saxophone and Director of Jazz Studies at UK. He is well known as a distinguished music educator, recording and performing artist, author, arranger and composer.

For questions or information about Hepcats activities, contact Mike Richardson, info@Luv2SwingDance.com; or 859-420-2426.