Conducting

Check out Will Boisture’s review of our CD! http://willboisture.com/?p=748

Check out this review of our CD in the August ‘11 issue of Downbeat! “… Alto saxophonist Daniel Jamieson grew up inspired by fellow Canadian Rob McConnell and with the formation of his Danjam Orchestra in 2008 picked up the mantle of the McConnell’s Boss Brass and Tentet… band is brass and reed heavy, but he leavens their clout on three of his eight pieces with the airy vocalese of Jihye Kim, and his own tuneful solo take on Charlie Chaplin’s Smile…”

http://www.jsojazzscene.org/CDReviews/201107_CDReviews.htm Here’s a New York-based big band led by Toronto-born Jamieson. Most of the album consists of his original writing for this ensemble, and it is varied in tempo, mood and style. I liked the linear feeling of “Song for Anna” and the “rush” of “Sudden Appearance.” The originals are surrounded by the opener, a very dissonant “Alone Together,” and the closer, a richly harmonic version of “Smile.”

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/142293-daniel-jamiesons-danjam-orchestra-sudden-appearance/ Click here to read John Garratt’s review of our CD!

Check out Bill Milkowski’s complementary review of our CD! http://www.oa2records.com/oa2/reviews/review.php?ReviewID=377 From a radical reinvention of “Alone Together” to the lushly orchestrated “Calming” and the burnings Liebman protege Daniel Jamieson shows great promise as an arranger-composer-bandleader on his ambitious debut. Jamieson’s company shines as well: Veteran drummer John Riley underscores solos by bassist Justin Gray and guitarist Nils Weinhold on “Calmin

http://www.jeffreymorgan.info/2011.06.12_arch.html#1307894463522 An amazing review of our CD in Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout. Check it out! CINEMATIC PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Daniel Jamieson’s Danjam Orchestra – Sudden Appearance (OA2) :: From Clint Eastwood’s Sudden Impact to JCVD’s Sudden Death , it’s long been a proven scientific fact that anything with the word “Sudden” in its title is bound to be a bona fide hit—a