DESCRIPTION:
Dørge is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging figures on the Danish scene today.
He has been interested in modern jazz almost from the beginning of his career in 1960. But through the years he has also shown curiosity about other cultures and genres.
Thus elements from European, Asian, African and Afro-American music traditions have been assembled by Dørge into an original synthesis. He has been working in bands with John Tchicai, Yusef Lateef, Yu Jun, Sainkho Namtchilak, Niels Henning Ørsted Petersen, Svend Asmussen, Johnny Dyani, Don Cherry, Billy Hart, Jim Pepper, David Murray, Peter Brötzmann, Harry Beckett, Marilyn Mazur, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink and Hugh Masakela among others.

New Jungle Orchestra was formed in 1980 and named after the legendary growling jungle sound of the early Duke Ellington Orchestra, some of whose compositions they have appropriately covered. Other major jazz influences to be heard are Charles Mingus´ experiments with combining improvisation and large-scale forms with the mobility of a group sized somewhere between a traditional combo and a big band, the Gill Evans flux between forceful anarchy and carefully layered, complex structures, and the ironic cabaret touch of Carla Bley. Today, however, these are not only jazz greats that - along with a huge number of non-Western musics - have contributed to the world of the New Jungle Orchestra; names like these also indicate the level of innovation and artistry, on which the NJO during its 20-year existence has placed itself, as one of the most original, intense and enjoyable groups to be heard on todays global music scene.
World music in the true sense of the world.

NJO has toured most of the world - Australia, Bali, Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, China, Korea, Thailand, Belgium, New Zealand, Vietnam, South Africa, England, Singapore, Java, Ghana, Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Scotland, Holland, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Faroe Island , The Virgin Islands, Iceland, USA, Canada, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Estonia, Latvia and Denmark.