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“I wasn’t prepared for this kind of writing and playing. I’m really impressed by the charts. This is great music, performed with spirit and dedication,” Bill Holman

“The performance are first rate, and EXCELLENT writing. Bravo to everyone and special congrats to the arranger”
John Clayton

“A beautiful Jazz Orchestra. A very surprising and impressive production. My sincere compliments to everyone”
Jerry van Rooyen

About the last place one might think to look for an ultra–hip, ultra–swinging and inclusively modern big band is the Netherlands, but there — word of honor — is where one may readily find exactly that, namely the awesomely talented Big Barchem Band under Joan Reinders’ unerring baton. Jack Bowers (december 2000: www.allaboutjazz.com)

The Millennium Jazz Orchestra or the Big Barchem Band, as it was in a previous incarnation, has to be one of the finest I have experienced on CD, certainly this year and among the best for some time.
The dynamics of the band are thrilling ……   playing with this superb