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Album Overview

On Frames, Miho Hazama writes for the Danish Radio Big Band with a clear sense of ensemble identity, orchestral color, and historical continuity. The album brings the sound of a contemporary jazz orchestra into conversation with the band’s lineage, using brass, reeds, rhythm section, and integrated solo voices as part of a unified compositional frame. Across six original works, the recording unfolds through layered ensemble writing, shifting meters, spacious textures, and carefully shaped improvisational passages, allowing the music to move between architectural detail and collective motion.

From the album… the recording’s connection between lineage and forward motion becomes especially clear on “The Pioneer’s Quest,” where dense ensemble lines, solo space, and shifting rhythmic ground create a sense of movement into new territory. The piece carries a searching character without turning away from the album’s larger center: Hazama’s writing treats history as active material, allowing the Danish Radio Big Band’s past to inform a present-tense orchestral language.

Listen to the album

Recommended listening: begin with “The Pioneer’s Quest,” then let the album unfold.

Album Details

Artist: Miho Hazama featuring Danish Radio Big Band
Album: Frames
Label: Edition Records / Universal Music Japan
Release Date: April 24, 2026
Recorded: November 18–21, 2025, Village Studio, Copenhagen
Composer / Conductor: Miho Hazama

Personnel

Woodwinds
Peter Fuglsang
Nicolai Schultz
Hans Ulrik
Karl-Martin Almqvist
Frederick Menzies

Trumpets
Dave Vreuls
Ari Bragi Karason
Thomas Kjærgaard
Mads la Cour
Gidon Nunes Vaz

Trombone / Bass Trombone / Tuba
Peter Dahlgren
Petter Hängsel
Annette Saxe
Gustaf Wiklund
Jakob Munk Mortensen

Rhythm Section
Per Gade — guitar
Artur Tuznik — piano
Kaspar Vadsholt — upright bass
Søren Frost — drums

Track Listing

1. “And the Door Unsealed” — 7:41
2. “Rondo” — 8:57
3. “LuLu” — 10:07
4. “The Pioneer’s Quest” — 7:06
5. “Aura II” — 10:37
6. “The First Notes” — 8:18