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The Cinematic Orchestra was formed by Jay Swinscoe in 1999. Taking on the role of bandleader, Swinscoe rallied a group of adventurous jazz players and delivered a debut album that took everyone by surprise and was voted album of the year by listeners to Gilles Peterson's Radio One show. Their second album was a series of reixes of other artists which caught the imagination of the wider record-buying public.
In the last three years the Cinematic Orchestra has played far and wide at every conceivable type of venue and on all kinds of occasion. They have shocked out from the Jazz Café to the Jazz Bop via Ronnie Scott's. And in somewhat hardcore fashion they toured the North American Jazz Festival circuit in the back of a transit van, with the dates culminating in a prestigious support slot for John McLaughlin in Central Park.
I really love their stuff. I have many, many of their tunes on my ipod. Just great late night music to connect yourself to the universe and your soul.