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Concert Kenton

Label: Sounds of Yesteryear
Released: 2020
Track listing: Act I, Progressive Jazz—Artistry Jumps; Elegy for Alto; Machito; Theme to the West. Act
II, Innovations in Modern Music—Theme; Samana; I’ll Remember April; Gloomy Sunday;
How High the Moon; Love for Sale; Gregory Bemko; Salute; Theme. Act III,
Mellophoniums—Commencement; Artemis and Apollo; Apercu. Act IV, L.A. Neophonic
—Stan speaks about the Neophonic Orchestra. Opus for Tympani (First Movement /
Second Movement / Third Movement). Act V, 1971—A Listening; Poinciana.
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: A Kenton Trilogy, Part 1: Dance Time

Better late than never. Having already appraised Part 2 of Sounds of Yesteryear's three-part salute to the Stan Kenton Orchestra, it seemed only proper that the same should be done (albeit out of order) for Part 1 (and Part 3 as well, whenever it is released). Unlike Part 2, which is devoted to the artistry of ...
Stan Kenton: A Kenton Trilogy, Part 2 / The Sound of Jazz

The Sound of Jazz by the legendary Stan Kenton Orchestra follows Part 1 of a Kenton Trilogy, Dance Time, and hopefully precedes a third component yet to be named. Although Kenton has been gone for more than forty years (he died in August 1979), he has hardly been forgotten, with reissues of concert and studio sessions ...
Stan Kenton Orchestra: Mellophonium Memoirs

Among bandleader Stan Kenton's many ensembles, surely none has given rise to as many differences of opinion--pro and con--as the Mellophonium Orchestra of the early 1960s. Audiences generally loved the warm and inviting sound of the mellophonium, residing in a nether region between trumpet and trombone; musicians, on the other hand--both those who played the mellophonium ...
Phil Woods / Stan Kenton / The Les Hooper Band

Phil Woods / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble Solitude Jazzed Media 2010 Not to underplay the title, but Solitude, from alto saxophone master Phil Woods and the splendid DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, embodies far more than the sort of serenity it implies. In fact, Woods is as animated and ...