Jazz Articles about Various Big Bands

Kenton Portraits: A Loving Salute

by Jack Bowers
July 2, 2006

Various Big Bands Kenton Portraits - A Loving Salute Tantara Productions 2006

The word breathtaking is over-used these days, so I must beg your indulgence as I use it to describe Kenton Portraits - A Loving Salute, which is indeed a loving and, yes, often breathtaking salute to one of the most admired and innovative bandleaders who ever lived, Stanley Newcomb Kenton. True, all of the material on the first disc in this two-disc ...