A video of the title tune of the newest CD Lookin’ East is on the website and on our YouTube channel. We see our German friend Volker Winck on tenor. This feature is specially composed by Joan Reinders for this outstanding musician.
Con Alma
A new video on our YouTube channel: Con Alma. Take a look!
Michael Abene
Michael Abene, one of the best big band composers/arrangers around the world, was the guest conductor before the summer stop. In the first set he was conducting the ArtEZ Bigband Zwolle. […]
All About Jazz ****
In April we received a second review of our newest CD. It is written by Jack Bowers in All About Jazz and below is an excerpt of the review. If you want to read the whole review, here’s the link. “The Netherlands, with a population less than that of New York State, is home to […]
JazzFlits
The first review of Lookin’ East is by the hand of Hans Invernizzi in JazzFlits 276. Below you can read a short paragraph from the article. Here’s the link to the complete review on page 11. “….Reinders bewijst weer eer aan zijn grote Amerikaanse helden Thad Jones en CountBasie. Er is veel ruimte voor […]
SCURRY
Have you seen and listened to Scurry yet? It’s the first video released of our newest CD Lookin’ East and is on this website or visit our YouTube channel. Enjoy!
Finnish guest
On April 5 Finnish trombone player Antti Rissanen was our guest in Bouwkunde. Antti Rissanen is one of the few Finnish jazz musicians who perform outside Finland. He studied among others with Jiggs Whigham. Antti had taken his own arrangements […]
Jazz heroes
Last year bandleader Joan Reinders was invited to do an interview for Jazzhelden (Jazz heroes), part of the Nederlands Jazz Archief (Dutch Jazz Archive). He was very honored being asked and this month the interview was released on the Jazzhelden website. (Dutch spoken)
Lookin’ East
On March 1 we had a fantastic CD release party at Theater Bouwkunde. It was a full house with many enthusiastic visitors and friends. Bob Hagen, the band’s longtime fan and friend, received the first CD “Lookin’ East”. This […]
New video: Reunification
The jazz samba Reunification is the opener of our newest CD “Lookin’ East”. MJO conducted by Joan Reinders, featuring Gerlo Hesselink (alto), Job Helmers (baritone) and Marius van den Brink (piano) at the Big Band Festival in Rabotheater Hengelo (NL) on May 15th 2016. Composition by Joan Reinders. Take a look at our YouTube channel […]
Awesome
Johan Hörlén (born in Sweden) plays with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Big Band. He is one of the leading alto saxophone players around and has played with Joe Lovano, Peter Erskine and many more. We were very proud he was our guest with the Millennium Jazz […]
Woody’n You
A new video of the ‘Singing Dizzy’ program is on our YouTube channel. Deborah J. Carter sings the beautiful song Woody’n You, arranged by Joan Reinders. Soloists: Suzan Veneman-trumpet Marius van den Brink-piano Felix Schlarmann-drums.
Jubilee
On January 4 Dutch singer Masha Bijlsma joined the band in the New Year’s Concert. Masha is celebrating her 25th Anniversary as a singer in 2017. The Orchestra is very proud that they could do the […]
Young and talented
The Millennium Jazz Orchestra has a new item in the Theater Bouwkunde concert series: playing with a young (and regional) talent. Mo van der Does was the first young talented musician and from Deventer as well who started this item on December 7. […]
OverUIT de Kunst
On December 18 RTV Oost has broadcasted the ‘OverUIT de Kunst’ special about Joan Reinders and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra . It is a nice glimpse behind the scenes at the CD recordings, thanks to Inga Tjapkes.
New video
A new video of the composition V.W., featuring Volker Winck on tenor sax. This video was recorded in the Bimhuis.
Chris Cheek
Guestsoloist Chris Cheek moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. Chris has also played with Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, Tom Harrell, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many others! This […]
“Groovin’ High”
A new video on our YouTube channel! Millennium Jazz Orchestra presents: Singing Dizzy featuring Deborah J. Carter. “Groovin’ High” comp: Dizzy Gillespie arr: Joan Reinders Soloist: Gerlo Hesselink on alto saxophone.
Mixing
Our next step in making a new CD is mixing and this step also is done. October 1 & 2 band leader Joan Reinders was mixing the recordings with Chris Weeda in Amsterdam. Chris is one of the best sound engineers in the Netherlands and abroad. The band has often worked with him and this […]
Special bond
Paul Heller was our German guest in the Bouwkunde concert in October and he sure can play the tenor saxophone. Paul plays with the famous WDR Big Band and is a leading soloist in the German jazz scene. […]
Crowd funding project
The crowd funding project for the newest CD of the Millennium Jazz Orchestra ended successfully. It were exciting weeks to gather the aiming amount and 95% of the sum was donated by music and big band lovers. We are very grateful to our contributors who made this a success.
Recordings
On 10 & 11 September the orchestra stayed in the studio Fattoria Musica in Osnabrück-Germany to make recordings for the newest CD. It all went very well. The band did a very good job and it’s going to be a great album. Studio IJsseldijk made video recordings and in the future you can watch them […]
Support the Millennium Jazz Orchestra...
The Millennium Jazz orchestra has developed its own unique style and soon the band is going to make recordings for a new album in Osnabrück, Germany, with new compositions and arrangements by band leader Joan Reinders. Mixing and mastering will be done in a studio in Amsterdam, […]
Singing Dizzy
At Whitsunday the Millennium Jazz Orchestra played with Deborah J. Carter the Singing Dizzy program in Rabotheater Hengelo. The program contains several hits of Dizzy Gillespie, such as Groovin’High, Con Alma etc. and all arrangements were written by band leader Joan Reinders. […]
Wednesday May 11 – Bouwkunde co...
The next Bouwkunde concert is Wednesday May 11th. The orchestra will be playing the program Singing Dizzy, together with singer Deborah J. Carter.
Jazz Hero
The legendary Dutch flugelhorn player Ack van Rooyen was the April’s soloist of the orchestra. Ack has the respectable age of 86, but still sounds young. During this concert he has played some pieces with the […]
Live at the BIMhuis-Safety Zone
A new video: Live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, January 18, 2015. Safety Zone – featuring Gerlo Hesselink. Composed by Joan Reinders.
Bebop
It was eight years ago Eric Alexander (New York) was the band’s guest for the first time. Eric Alexander is a real bebop tenor sax player, influenced by George Coleman and John Coltrane and others. In 1991 Eric competed against Joshua Redman and […]
Trombone master
In February the Millennium Jazz Orchestra has invited as its guest soloist trombone master Bart van Lier. Bart van Lier is the well known Dutch trombone soloist, teacher and the lead trombonist of the Metropole Orkest. Over the years Bart has been the Millennium Jazz Orchestra’s guest several […]
Pork
Pork is a composition of guitarist Anton Goudsmit and arranged by Joan Reinders. It is a live recording of the Millennium Jazz Orchestra, directed by Joan Reinders featuring Anton Goudsmit at the BIM-huis Amsterdam, January 18th, 2015. The video can be viewed on this website under Video or at our YouTube channel.
