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Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra

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Genre: Jazz, world

Available: On request

Area: Scandinavia

Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra

Instrument:

Genre: Jazz, world

Available: On request

Area: Scandinavia

Bio
Bio

Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra has been around since 1980 – with some changes in the crew. They play worldmusic at the highest level, and they are in a class of their own. With a mixture of jazz, Asian, African and European music – and general madness – they create their own dadaistic universe, which gives the audience a unique and extraordinary experience.

 

NJO has been touring in more than 50 countries performing for Nelson Mandela, The Japanese Emperor, Kofi Anan, in Sydney Town Hall, Carnegie Hall in NYC, The Opera in Copenhagen – just to mention a few.

 

Pierre Dørge is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging figures on the Danish scene today. He has been interested in modern jazz from as far back as the beginning of his career in 1960. Through the years, however, he has also displayed an unremitting curiosity about other cultures and genres.

 

Accordingly, elements from European, Asian, African and Afro-American music traditions have been assembled by Dørge into a most original synthesis. He has been working in bands with John Tchicai, Johnny Mbizo Dyani, Yusef Lateef, James “Blood” Ulmer, Hamid Drake, Yu Jun, Sainkho Namtchilak, Niels Henning Ørsted Petersen, Svend Asmussen, Don Cherry, Billy Hart, Jim Pepper, David Murray, Peter Brötzmann, Harry Beckett, Marilyn Mazur, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink and Hugh Masakela, among others.

 

New Jungle Orchestra was formed in 1980 and named after the legendary growling “jungle” sound of the early Duke Ellington Orchestra, some of whose compositions have appropriately been covered by NJO. Other major jazz influences that can be heard are Charles Mingus’ experiments with combining improvisation and large-scale forms with the mobility of a group that is sized somewhere between a traditional combo and a big band; the Gil Evans flux between forceful anarchy and carefully layered, complex structures; and the ironic cabaret touch of Carla Bley.

 

The mere mention of names like these also indicate the level of innovation and artistry on which the NJO, in its 30-years of existence, has distinguished itself as one of the most original, intense and enjoyable groups to be heard on today’s global music scene. As things stand today, however, these are not the only jazz giants who – along with a large array of non-Western musics – have contributed to the New Jungle Orchestra’s sound.

 

What we have here is “World Music”, in the most literal sense of the term.

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