(Photo: Hardy Klink)
(Photo: Karin van der Meul)
Composer, arranger and conductor (Photo: Hardy Klink)
(Photo: Hardy Klink)
Trumpeter Ian Cleaver (1996) is one of the great promises of Dutch jazz. Born and raised in Amsterdam, he started improvising at a young age. Working professionally since the age of 16, he performed with various small/big bands at venues like the Concertgebouw, North Sea […]
Fascinating Rhythm is the newest video on our website and our YouTube channel. This famous song is arranged by conductor Joan Reinders for the Gershwin Celebration Tour in 2019. This is a special arrangement for vocal, string quartet and big band. Recorded live at the Philharmonie Haarlem November […]
Our first concert in September at theatre MIMIK was a great success. A nice big stage, the orchestra could sit at an appropriate distance according to the COVID regulations and more importantly: the hall sounds great! Another important thing: it […]
On September 27 you can hear the Millennium Jazz Orchestra at MIMIK. It is our first concert at this stage and it is our first concert after a long period of not being allowed to play together. We are very looking forward to it! Our guest is Volker […]
A beautiful concert review of The Millennium Jazz Orchestra featuring Andy Hunter, March 1 2020. CONCERTRECENSIE. The Millennium Jazz Orchestra featuring Andy Hunter, Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer, 1 maart 2020 beeld: Ton van Leeuwen door: Cyriel Pluimakers Het Millennium Jazz Orchestra (MJO) geeft al dertig jaar lang concerten in […]
On Sunday 1 March trombonist Andy Hunter (USA) is our guest soloist at Theater Bouwkunde! Born in Northern Michigan and musically raised on the diverse scenes of Cleveland, Shanghai and New York City, Andy Hunter now resides primarily in Cologne, Germany where he performs regularly […]
This season the Millennium Jazz Orchestra celebrates 30 years of performances at Theater Bouwkunde! Time flies, who would have imagined that the orchestra would come to Deventer year after year to perform on this stage. It feels like home. Thank you Heleen and Pieter for allowing us to […]
A video recording of Slap That Bass from the Gershwin Celebration Tour. With Fay Claassen, Matangi Quartet and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra. Slap That Bass Composed by George Gershwin Arranged by Joan Reinders Recorded live at the Philharmonie Haarlem, The Netherlands, November 23 2019 Video: Bigears Productions Sound […]
A beautiful concert with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra and Maaike den Dunnen on Sunday 12 January at Theater Bouwkunde Deventer. She sang a few of her own compositions, arranged for big band by Suzan Veneman and Joan Reinders and a previously written arrangement by Ed Partyka. […]
On Sunday, January 12th, Maaike den Dunnen will sing a concert with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer. Two of her original tunes will be played. Suzan Veneman, trumpeter/composer/arranger has arranged ‘The Deep’ and Joan Reinders, leader of the MJO, has made an arrangement of Den […]
The Gershwin Celebration Tour has finished. We can look back on very successful concerts, that were greatly well received by the audience and we had a wonderful collaboration with the soloists: the Matangi Quartet and singer Fay Claassen. […]
A video recording of Rhapsody in Blue, with the Matangi Quartet as a soloist and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra is on our YouTube channel. Rhapsody in Blue Composed by George Gershwin Arranged by Joan Reinders for Matangi String Quartet and Millennium Jazz Orchestra Recorded live […]
On Sunday December 1, we had a fantastic and inspiring concert with Dick Oatts (among others lead alt with The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, New York) in Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer. What a sound, energy and […]
17 Nov 19 15h00 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Matangi Quartet/ Fay Claassen Zwolle Theater De Spiegel Gershwin Celebration Tour 20 Nov 19 20h30 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Matangi Quartet/ Fay Claassen Amsterdam Bimhuis Gershwin Celebration Tour 23 Nov 19 20h15 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Matangi Quartet/ Fay Claassen Haarlem Philharmonie Gershwin Celebration Tour 24 Nov 19 […]
On Sunday December 1, Dick Oatts will be on stage again with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer. Oatts moved to NYC in 1977. Shortly there after, joined the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. Since then, he has toured, recorded, and performed […]
As part of the Gershwin Celebration Tour there was a second workshop and this time with the Meander Bigband in Zwolle on Friday 8 November. The Meander Bigband is a schoolbigband of the Meander College Zwolle. Now Joan Reinders […]
As part of the Gershwin Celebration Tour the first workshop was on Tuesday, November 5 with Bigband Allotria on their regular rehearsal evening at Domusica in Zwolle. Conductor Joan Reinders had taken a score from the GCT […]
Our try out concert in Venlo was on Sunday 20 October at De Maaspoort Venlo. It is always exciting when the whole program is played for audience for the first time. We are very satisfied with the try out and confidently look forward to the premiere in […]
All in preparation for the Gershwin Celebration Tour, a public rehearsal took place at Domusica in Zwolle on Saturday 19 October. The musicians had to cross their t’s and cross their i’s for the try out concert in Venlo. […]
On October 13th we had our first Sunday concert at Theater Bouwkunde and it was a great success. We were a little bit afraid that our regular visitors of the Wednesday evening concerts might abandon us on […]
This season 2019-2020 we celebrate our 30th concert series in Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer and we do this with our first concert starting in a new setup: from now on we will play our concerts on a Sunday afternoon. The Wednesday evening concerts stop and become […]
13 Oct 19 16h00 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Joan Reinders Deventer (NL) Theater Bouwkunde Toon Roos 20 Oct 19 16h00 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Matangi Quartet/ Fay Claassen Venlo (NL) De Maaspoort Gershwin Celebration Tour 17 Nov 19 15h00 Millennium Jazz Orchestra/ Matangi Quartet/ Fay Claassen […]
Bernstein Celebration Tour On Saturday May 18 we will be playing the music of Leonard Bernstein in Singer Laren, together with soprano Laura Bohn. You will hear many famous melodies, a lot of swing, bluesy, fat big band sounds, exciting rhythms and beautiful ballads. This […]
Tenor saxophonist Simon Rigter is our guest soloist in Theater Bouwkunde on May 1st. He studied in The Hague with John Ruocco and graduated with Ferdinand Povel in Hilversum in 1997. Simon Rigter has played with the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, Slide Hampton, John Marshall and many others. […]
Octopus part 6: Procreation Composed and conducted by Joan Reinders Soloists: Gregor Sperzel – trombone and Bart Tarenskeen – bass Live recording at Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer May 2nd This part depicts the love life – and thus also the reproduction. However, the love life doesn’t really […]
It was a beautiful concert with singer Rachel Gould in April in Theater Bouwkunde. In 2005 she also was our guest and we could play the same repertoire as we did fourteen years ago: arrangements by Rob Pronk and one by trombonist/arranger Henri Gerrits. […]
Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Octopus By JACK BOWERS March 21, 2019 1,328 Views **** Octopus, the tenth album released by the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in its nearly twenty- five years of impressive music-making in The Netherlands, is actually an eight-part suite by composer / arranger Joan Reinders devoted to one of the sea world’s more […]
On Thursday April 25 the Millennium Jazz Orchestra and soprano Laura Bohn will be playing the music of Leonard Bernstein in Concertzaal Tilburg. You will hear many famous melodies, a lot of swing, bluesy, fat big band sounds, exciting rhythms and beautiful ballads.
Octopus part 5: Food Composed and conducted by Joan Reinders Soloists: Coen Kaldeway – baritone saxophone, Rob Sijben – soprano saxophone, Dirk Balthaus – piano Live recording at Theater Bouwkunde, Deventer May 2nd Part five depicts the varied food of the octopus: this includes crabs, lobsters, […]
Rachel Gould studied cello and classical singing at Boston University from 1960 till 1971. From 1964 she worked as a backup singer. She only appeared occasionally in the early 1970s, in the jazz clubs on the East Coast. Only after her divorce and moving to Germany did she establish herself […]
