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Brussels Jazz Orchestra is a Belgian jazz big band founded in 1993 by saxophonist and composer Frank Vaganée.

They recorded their first CD in 1997.

In a few years, this band has collaborated with some of the most famous composers / arrangers of the international jazz scene: Maria Schneider, Dave Liebman, Bill Holman, Kenny Werner, Bob Mintzer, Kenny Wheeler, and with guests like McCoy Tyner, Phil Woods, Tom Harrell, Wallace Rooney, Norma Winstone, Gianluigi Trovesi, Philip Catherine, Jeanne Lee, Toots Thielemans, Lee Konitz, David Linx, Gustavo Bergalli, Richard Galliano etc ... as well as Belgian composers / arrangers like Bert Joris, Michel Herr, Erwin Vann, Jean Warland and leader Frank Vaganée himself.