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A Living Music

D. Peterson | Orem, Utah United States | 09/30/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Heirs to Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington, though with their own sound and ideas, the New Jungle Orchestra is one of the most interesting large ensembles making music. They have just the right mix of humor, pain, exhuberance, and sadness to really keep things moving throughout this set. Alternately wild and reflective, the band shines on some Danish classical music (a tarogato feature for Morten Carlsen, the band's tenorist), two selections featuring the spacy vocals of Aviaja Lumholt, and "Fullmoon for a Rhino," a blues that does what the blues are meant to do better than almost anything I've heard in recent years. Open-eared listeners should definitely pick up this explorative though fairly accessible set."

Music from the Danish Jungle

Thomas Zatorski | Commack, NY United States | 05/31/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Welcome to the Jungle! Guns N' Roses in Denmark! Well - not really. Why this CD is called this on Amazon, I don't know. Actually, it is a CD of the works of the Danish Composer Otto Malling - who no one heard of today, but who, back in the day - in Denmark - just might have been as popular as Slash! These are tone poems based on Biblical themes - straight from the bible - The Conversion of Paul and the Seven Last Words. Danish Jungle Music indeed!"

Jazz at its best

J. Bergenser | USA | 10/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Music from the Danish Jungle by Pierre Dorge & his Jungle Orchestra is one of my favorite CD's in my Jazz collection. Its different, its fun, its moving, its swings, its make you want to listen to all their other recordings - which are all interesting and different from what you hear on this side of the ocean.

Try this one and you will be forever addicted."