Jazz Articles about Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra

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The Neophonic Orchestras: New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2

by Jack Bowers
July 20, 2005

The Neophonic Orchestra New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2 Tantara Productions 2005

The date was January 4, 1965, and the audience that waited anxiously in the newly christened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion hardly knew what to expect. They had come to hear the first-ever performance by the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, led by the incomparable Stan Kenton and featuring a number of the most prominent studio and Jazz musicians in southern California. Before the evening ...