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Stan Kenton: Machito (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band’s music attracted the finest young instrumentalists, as the band provided an excellent forum for new ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: All the Things You Are (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

Kenton admired Gerry Mulligan, but didn't like his attitude or his insistence on everything played his way. Yet for a...

Stan Kenton: Young Blood (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

Mulligan and Stan Kenton was an odd mix that didn't work out. Mulligan's music was light years away from Kenton's dyn...

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

To Stan Kenton, bigger was better. More instruments, expanded ranges, wider voicings, grand gestures, GREATER VOLUME....

Stan Kenton: Lover (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

After lulling us with an intro fit for a biopic of some doomed Romantic Composer, including stating the melody as a C...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Stan Kenton: Eager Beaver (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Kenton formed his band in 1940 and played a successful 1941 summer season at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, Calif...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Unison Riff (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Even though Kenton led a composer/arranger’s band in many ways, a number of his musicians later became major jazz per...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Frank Speaking (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

By 1952, Kenton was leading an ensemble called “New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm” and continued to attract excellen...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Hav-a-Havana (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

From a jazz standpoint, the ensemble Kenton led that featured the music of Willis Holman is the highpoint of Stan’s c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Elegy for Alto (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

After disbanding his "Artistry in Rhythm" ensemble, Kenton reformed the band and called the resulting music "Progress...

Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band: Minuano (Six Eight) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Bob Curnow's arrangements of Pat Metheny's music for big band are a delight to hear, and the 1994 recording The Music...

Swartz, Brian (Davidson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Swartz, Brian (Davidson), trumpet; b. Wichita Falls, TX, 16 December 1967. Father was in US Air Force so his famil...

Stan Kenton: And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band was the staff orchestra on the Bob Hope radio program when Anita O’Day joined the band. O’Day was alr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Monotony (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

In 1948, at the pinnacle of success, bandleader Stan Kenton—who at his wife's urging had entered psychoanalysis—annou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen), pianist, composer, arranger and educator; b. Cleveland, OH, 18 August 1955. His father i...

Stan Kenton: Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days and One Hour Blues (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

This is one of vocalist June Christy's best records with the Kenton band. Originally from Chicago, she married tenorm...

Stan Kenton: The Peanut Vendor (alternative review) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

A Cuban song that was the USA's first Latin crossover hit (1931) gets a facelift from the much-maligned Stan Kenton. ...

Bob Florence: Bebop Charlie (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Bob Florence’s tuneful, swinging arrangements for his Limited Edition ensemble provide solid evidence that the modern...

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