Category: Danjam Orchestra

http://www.jsojazzscene.org/CDReviews/201107_CDReviews.htm

Here’s a New York-based big band led by Toronto-born Jamieson. Most of the album consists of his original writing for this ensemble, and it is varied in tempo, mood and style. I liked the linear feeling of “Song for Anna” and the “rush” of “Sudden Appearance.” The originals are surrounded by the opener, a very dissonant “Alone Together,” and the closer, a richly harmonic version
of “Smile.”

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/142293-daniel-jamiesons-danjam-orchestra-sudden-appearance/

Click here to read John Garratt’s review of our CD!

Check out Bill Milkowski’s complementary review of our CD!

http://www.oa2records.com/oa2/reviews/review.php?ReviewID=377

From a radical reinvention of “Alone Together” to the lushly orchestrated “Calming” and the burnings Liebman protege Daniel Jamieson shows great promise as an arranger-composer-bandleader on his ambitious debut. Jamieson’s company shines as well: Veteran drummer John Riley underscores solos by bassist Justin Gray and guitarist Nils Weinhold on “Calming” with supple brushwork, and then fuels the jauntily swinging “Crunchy Peanut Butter” with an infectious Jo Jones-style hi-hat beat. Anna Webber is featured on flute on the evocative “Song for Anna” before blowing robust, facile tenor saxophone lines on the darkly beautiful “Ballad for Hope.” Jamieson makes his lone playing appearance on a richly re-harmonized take on Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile,” blowing serpentine alto sax lines around the familiar melody.

http://www.jeffreymorgan.info/2011.06.12_arch.html#1307894463522

An amazing review of our CD in Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout. Check it out!

CINEMATIC PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Daniel Jamieson’s Danjam Orchestra – Sudden Appearance (OA2) :: From Clint Eastwood’s Sudden Impact to JCVD’s Sudden Death, it’s long been a proven scientific fact that anything with the word “Sudden” in its title is bound to be a bona fide hit—and this album is guaranteed to be no exception to that beholdin’ rule even though this ain’t no moving picture by a long shot. But it is a soundtrack of sorts in that your brain will be conjuring up an endless array of cinematic images nonetheless, thanks to the evocative assortment of selections that saxman Danjam’s swingin’ jazz band essays. From the frantic ten minute rain-soaked noir bop of “Alone Together” to the hepper than hip twelve minute title track to the sensitive and sensuously smooth take given the Charlie Chaplin standard “Smile” this is one album that’ll be in heavy rotation on your turntable for weeks. Bonus points for admitting in your liner notes that you had the good taste to be inspired by Rob McConnell’s legendary Boss Brass—because that’s what this excellent album is in a word: Boss.