Cape Town based
With the surge in popularity of the Big Band bought on by artistes such as Robbie Williams and Michael Bublé, South Africa’s premier 19 piece Big Band, The Jonny Cooper Orchestra is enjoying nationwide “full-house” signs.
They recreate the Swing era of the 1940’s with four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes and a rhythm section, to re-live the civilian orchestra of Glenn Miller. The characteristic waving trombones and shining trumpets moving in well-drilled unison enhance the riffs of Miller favourites such as ‘In The Mood, String Of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction and Moonlight Serenade’. The band is recognised Internationally as one of the finest ‘copyists’ of the Glenn Miller Sound and has been referred to recently in the International Big Band magazine ‘Big Band Buddies’ as ‘One of the best Big Bands in the world’.