Jazz Dock Orchestra Andy Schofield's 60th Birthday Concert

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Jazz Dock Orchestra Andy Schofield's 60th Birthday Concert Monday 10/08/2026 from 21:00 A birthday concert by the orchestra’s artistic director, Andy Schofield. This outstanding saxophonist, composer, and arranger will celebrate a milestone birthday surrounded by colleagues and friends from the Jazz Dock Orchestra, and together they will perform a retrospective of his work. The Jazz Dock Orchestra is a modern jazz big band of European level focused on original compositions and interpretations of the classic big band songbook. In the six years of its successful existence, the orchestra has become the "flagship" of the Jazz Dock club and has worked with world class musicians such as Kurt Elling, Richard Bona, Ben Wendel, Niels Klein and others. Precise yet lively interplay, great solos and quality scores have brought the big band great renown in the wider context of the European jazz scene. The orchestra's work focuses on its own original compositions (especially those of Jan Jirucha, Andy Schofield, and Miroslav Hloucal), but also on high-quality arrangements of the world repertoire (