Metropole Orkest Big Band plays Quincy Jones

Conductor and arranger Vellu Halkosalmi spent over ten years searching for scores of the music Quincy Jones wrote for his big band in the ’50s & ’60s. While rewriting the scores from existing records, Halkosalmi got in touch with Quincy Jones, who helped him to put this project together. This video includes performances of Moanin’ and Birth of a Band by the Metropole Orkest Big Band, conducted by Vellu Halkosalmi (De Oosterpoort, Groningen - 10 March 2014). Trumpet solo on Moanin’ by Ruud Breuls Saxophone solo’s on Birth of a Band by Leo Janssen & Sjoerd Dijkhuizen Drum solo on Birth of a Band by Martijn Vink