NYJO - National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Jim Mullen Organ Trio Monday 3rd January - Wednesday 5th January

NYJO www.nyjo.org.uk is a 22 piece band with 2 vocalists which can be enjoyed by non-jazz audiences as well as jazz aficionados, a truly uplifting celebration of the jazz orchestra sound from a band of under 25 year olds, many of whom are destined to become the next UK jazz generation.

Much of NYJO's music is written specially for the orchestra by British composers, including past and present members of NYJO. After 45 years in the business NYJO can boast an enormous repertoire that covers the decades and a wide variety of styles, thanks to its founder musical director and life president, Bill Ashton, OBE.

In January 2011, under its new Musical Director Mark Armstrong, NYJO will perform a premiere of five new commissions at Ronnie Scott’s. These new works are funded for the major part by the PRS for Music Foundation. The five new commissions will include exciting and challenging new works from Mike Gibbs, Nikki Iles, Jason Yarde, Julian Arguelles and Tim Garland. NYJO intends to tour these new works around the UK for the whole of 2011 and hope to be able to share the new charts with the regional youth jazz orchestra network.