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Umo Jazz Orchestra

Umo Jazz Orchestra has been played on NTS in shows including The Opera Show, featured first on 20 January 2016. Songs played include Introducing, W.W. and Sea Lady.

UMO Jazz Orchestra – the only one of its kind in Finland

Big band music was performed in Finland already in December 1934, when the Rhythm Boys played live for a radio show at the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s studio on Helsinki’s Fabianinkatu. But it was another 40 years before the professional big band sound really took hold. This was in the mid-1970s, when jazz musicians achieved their common wish to play together in a large ensemble, resulting in…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Introducing
Nicole Willis, Umo Jazz Orchestra, Ian F Svenonius
Persephone Records, Herakles Records2017
Introducing
Nicole Willis, Umo Jazz Orchestra, Ian F SvenoniusPersephone Records, Herakles Records2017
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W.W.
UMO Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone
A-Records2000
W.W.
UMO Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Norma WinstoneA-Records2000
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Sea Lady
UMO Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone
A-Records2000
Sea Lady
UMO Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Norma WinstoneA-Records2000
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Ghost Warrior
Jimi Tenor, UMO
Herakles Records2015
Ghost Warrior
Jimi Tenor, UMOHerakles Records2015
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I Was Here
Jimi Tenor, UMO
Herakles Records2015
I Was Here
Jimi Tenor, UMOHerakles Records2015
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