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Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra

Band,
Jazz and Electronic
A.k.a. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet

Since 2005, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra is one of Otomo's main projects, in which he explores the field of jazz, live improv, post-onkyo, electroacoustic music. The Orchestra acts as a successor for both New Jazz Quintet (ONJQ) and New Jazz Ensemble (ONJE), and has an ever-changing line-up of approximately 10-12 musicians. In 2005 New Jazz Orchestra released two albums: ONJO with vocals by Kahimi Karie and Mariko Hamada, and Out To Lunch, covering Eric Dolphy's eponymous album Out To Lunch! in its entirety. ONJO gave many live performances in 2006-2007 in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy. Some of those concerts are documented on two sequential double-albums Live Vol. 1 Series Circuit and Live Vol. 2 Parallel Circuit – particularly shows in Berlin, Tokyo and Nagoya, where Orchestra played in very extended line-up of 30+ artists.

Members

	Sachiko M sampler *1970 JP
	Otomo Yoshihide ttbl, g *1959 JP
	Cor Fuhler p, org *1964 NL
	Mats Gustafsson bs, ts, sax *1964 SE
	Axel Dörner tr *1964 DE
	Kumiko Takara vib, perc JP
	Alfred Harth *1949 DE
	Yasuhiro Yoshigaki dr, perc *1959
	Tsugami Kenta as, ss
	Hiroaki Mizutani b JP
	Taisei Aoki tb JP