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The Kentucky
Jazz
Repertory Orchestra |
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The Hepcats favorite band! |
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Co-directed by University of Kentucky
School of Music Professors Dick Domek & Miles Osland.
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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. |
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KJRO's book primarily
consists of original swing-era arrangements of classics songs by such great Big Bands as: |
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Duke
Ellington |
Jimmie Lunceford |
Count
Basie |
Benny Goodman |
Artie
Shaw |
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Tommy
Dorsey |
Louis Armstrong |
Lionel Hampton |
Harlan Leonard |
Glenn
Miller |
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The Kentucky Jazz
Repertory Orchestra
would like to play for your event! |
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For booking
information,
contact Mike Richardson at 859-42-2426,
info@luv2swingdance.com or
Dick Domek,
859/257-1966 or email:
dicty@uky.edu. |
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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. |
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For questions or information about Hepcats activities,
contact Mike Richardson,
info@Luv2SwingDance.com; or 859-420-2426. |
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