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 (even though the picture to the left only shows 12 people!) dedicated to the preservation and performance of jazz music. 

KJRO is a band that is especially suited for and highly skilled at recreating authentic swing-era arrangements.
 

KJRO members consists of the finest and most talented faculty members, alumni and musicians from Kentucky area colleges and universities.

KJRO's book of arrangements include 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 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,
Email, info@Luv2SwingDance.com; or 859-420-2426.


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