TPO is one of Asia’s premier jazz big bands, emerging out of the Covid-19 pandemic that left Taiwanese and international musicians suddenly stranded, as it were, but with lots of music to share. Director Jim Geddes, a woodwinds player from the US Midwest with decades of big band and Broadway experience, put together a band that has already recorded a live studio EP, a live album with Taiwanense drumming legend Rich Huang, and has become known for being both on the cutting edge of new material and deeply versed in the most swinging music of the last 100 years of jazz.