Denver and the Mile High Orchestra made it to the final four of the Next Great American Band reality show, avoiding elimination for another week. The show was taped Wednesday night as spoiled here and recapped here.
They played Queen’s “Sleeping on the Sidewalk”, again a song I’m not familiar with, but it was a solid, [...]
I missed most of the show this week because we were driving around the neighborhood with the kids looking at Christmas lights, including more than a few tributes to Clark Griswold. However, between the spoiler and the fan club email, I knew that Denver and the Mile High Orchestra had advanced again this week, making [...]
DMHO survived their “white funk” performance on The Next Great American Band to play again, this time a rendition of “I’m Free” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (it was a Rolling Stones “theme week” - all the bands played songs written by the Stones).
It was a solid performance, but the judges clearly now want [...]
Well, hmmm… Denver and the Mile High Orchestra did what I hoped they wouldn’t. They took the judges’ comments last week too much to heart and came out with a very different style than the big band swing that was carrying them.
Instead they played a horn-driven funk arrangement of Ruby Baby by Jerry Leiber [...]
First, to Denver Bierman on the birth of his new daughter, London. More about that on his wife’s blog…
Second, as spoiled here, for making it into the “Elite Eight” of The Next Great American Band. They played Billy Joel’s “Tell Her About It” tonight and it was very well done.
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From what I saw the first [...]
For those interested in contemporary big band and Christian music, and have some free time on Friday nights, I received the following in my inbox earlier this morning:
Well the word is out! Our favorite new era big band, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra is on Fox’s latest show The Next Great American Band. DMHO [...]
I picked up the music for the worship service on Sunday earlier this week. This is the first time I’ll be playing with the contemporary praise+worship band at our new church and a horn line (two trumpets, two trombones) is new for them as well, so it’ll be exciting to see it all come together. [...]
