NYJO 1971. Music in the Round. The Cockpit Theatre London, in 1971 a brand new theatre-in-the-round venue became the rehearsal venue for The National Youth Jazz Orchestra itself newly transformed from the London Youth Jazz Orchestra. NYJO ocassionaly played concerts in the theatre and when LWT decided to do a series of concerts in the round, The Cockpit was the ideal location and NYJO an obvious choice for one of the programmes. After some time, at The Cockpit, and some time at other venues NYJO returned to rehearse at the Cockpit in the early 2000 and was there until 2012 before moving to The London Centre of Contemporary Music near London Bridge.
This video kindly provided from the ITV archives is a very early example of colour tv in Britain, which had only become 'normal' on ITV by 1969!
The picture and sound have stood up very well (theres a few audio dropouts) and the rigour of making the programme shows now and then on the band but these are the first colour images of NYJO from this era. The stands are the very first wood version proclaiming NYJO and the configuration of French horn AND Tuba is evident. Humphrey Burton is the affable, unflappable genial host and John Dankworth is on hand too. This IS exactly as it was!

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