Sunday 15 October 2006
METROPOLE ORCHESTRA BIG BAND MEETS MICHAEL ABENE
in collaboration with NPS Radio
Michael Abene is a composer/arranger with a highly impressive resume. As a teenager he was a member of Maynard Ferguson’s orchestra for which he wrote number of very popular charts. He did the same in the years after for Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, the Mel Lewis Orchestra and B.B. King, to name few. He is a friend of the Metropole and already wrote compositions for this top orchestra in 2000 and 2003.