The Million Dollar Orchestra is the crazy project of Al Kent, an avid record collector and self-confessed disco geek. It all started sometime in 2005 when Al, bored with chopping up disco loops to bosh over house drums, and even more bored with the deluge of pointless disco re-edits flooding the shops, decided to take things a step further and create something that sounded like the music he loved, something authentically disco.
So he knocked up some rhythm tracks using drums and percussion sampled from some old disco records and set about looking for musicians to jazz things up a bit… After recruiting Charlie Milne (keys), Stephen Westwater (bass), Kev McShane (guitar), Colin and Alan Train (sax), Gary Kainth and Ryan Buchanan (percussion), Jim Gash (drums), Douglas West (trumpet) and a few guest vocalists, the band played their first triumphal gig at the Glasgow Jazz Festival. The Million Dollar Orchestra was now officially complete! They all headed towards the studio a set out to record what would become a cult album: Better Days.
The Million Dollar Orchestra is a big band from Scotland idealized by producer Al Kent. In the midst of so many bands reviving the funk of the 60s and 70s, the guy thought of a band in which disco music would be revisited. Not in electronic form, because that's what else it has. Projections doing a house mixuruca and calling the new disco music. The guy joined twenty musicians and built a real orchestra to play themes that refer to the beginning of the disc, when it was still done with bands. In the debut album, "Better Days" the result is overwhelming. Groove first with the right violins, cellos and a suit of helluva metal.
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