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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: All About Ronnie (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Chris Connor was recommended to Kenton by June Christy. Connor did not stay very long, but her stint with the band ma...

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 Getz & Dizzy Gillespie: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 31, 09

Back in 1953 Getz and Gillespie battled it out at a very intense session, and it seemed like Dizzy was picking very f...

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 Getz & Gerry Mulligan: That Old Feeling – as heard in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992) and Celebrity (1998) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

In the 1950s, owning a mere record player was not enough. Audiophiles grew so obsessed with turntables, cartridges, s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Herb Ellis: Tin Roof Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 17, 09

In October 1957, as the final tour of Jazz At The Philharmonic was winding down, Norman Granz brought many of the JA...

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...

Victor Feldman: Too Blue (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Transplanted Londoner Victor Feldman was 23 when he recorded "Too Blue" with 22-year-old Scott LaFaro, the Earl Scrug...

Conte Candoli: Mambo Diane (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

The West Coast style that easterner Horace Silver vilified in 1956 as "faggot-type jazz" had by 1960 wilted as submis...

Stan Kenton: An Esthete on Clark Street (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Bill Russo recorded this composition with his own orchestra for the Dee Gee label, and later created this setting for...

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: Invention for Guitar and Trumpet (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

Kenton first heard of Willis Holman when Gene Roland played Stan a recording of a 12-tone contrapuntal blues that Bil...

Charlie Parker with Stan Kenton: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Yes, Charlie Parker actually recorded with Stan Kenton! And unlike the electronically created collaborations that are...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Stan Kenton: Fascinating Rhythm (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

Updating the Kenton dance book was a wise idea, especially when Bill Russo became the main architect of New Concepts ...

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

Kenton may not have been entirely comfortable with Bill Holman's musical direction, but he bought everything that Bil...

Stan Kenton: You and the Night and the Music (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

The influence of Bill Russo's teacher Lennie Tristano is reflected in this austere setting of the classic minor balla...

Stan Kenton: 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

The title denotes the coordinates for Cuba, and Russo would later say that this was one of his better pieces. George ...

Shorty Rogers: Martians' Lullaby (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

On the cusp of the Space Age, many otherwise well-informed people believed in Martians. Orson Welles's Halloween 1938...

Sims, Zoot (John Haley) posted in Encyclopedia November 21, 08

The name of Zoot Sims may be unfamiliar to some, but he earned his spot on the list of top tenor saxophonists the har...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Marian McPartland posted in Features and Interviews May 02, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...

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