Live Jazz London

Influences: Count Basie, Thad Jones, Maynard Ferguson

NYJO is a 50-plus-year-old British big band of young players aged up to 25, selected by audition and performing big band jazz across the UK at around 40 gigs a year. The orchestra plays swinging charts, original commissions from British composers and arrangers, and new works, with a sound rooted in the classic big band tradition. Founded in 1965 as the London Schools' Jazz Orchestra, it has alumni including Guy Barker, Julian Argüelles, Rob Luft and Amy Winehouse, making it one of the most important incubators of British jazz talent.