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Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: Concert Kenton
by Jack Bowers
There's no question that Stan Kenton led one of the more successful and popular orchestras of the storied Big Band Era, winning various yearly polls while drawing large crowds to his jazz concerts and dance performances from coast to coast. But Kenton always wanted something more: to enlighten as well as entertain. Music, he felt, should ...
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: A Kenton Trilogy, Part 1: Dance Time
by Jack Bowers
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
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Connor Sings — Kenton Swings
By Chris Connor
Label: Sounds of Yesteryear
Released: 2019
Track listing: Theme: Artistry in Rhythm; Jeepers Creepers; Everything Happens to Me (short version); There Will Never Be Another You; You’re Mine You; I Only Have Eyes for You; September in the Rain; Lullaby in Rhythm; All About Ronnie; Love Me or Leave Me; If I Should Lose You; Tenderly; I’ll Remember April; Taking a Chance on Love; Everything Happens to Me (long version); I Get a Kick Out of You; Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me; Stan Speaks About Chris; Darn That Dream; Artistry in Rhythm.
Chris Connor with Stan Kenton And His Orchestra: Connor Sings — Kenton Swings
by Jack Bowers
However listeners may receive this “new" album from Sounds of Yesteryear, there's no gainsaying its title, Connor Sings—Kenton Swings, as that secures its contents in a neat little box with no loose ends in sight. There's also no denying that these seventeen songs by vocalist Chris Connor and the dynamic Stan Kenton Orchestra were recorded more ...
Jazz Journey
By Stan Kenton
Label: Sounds of Yesteryear
Released: 2018
Track listing: Sketch; Blue Moon; If I Should Lose You; Jeepers Creepers; Night and Day; Cherokee; On the Alamo; Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be; The Nearness of You; I Remember You; Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen; Out of This World; Lazy Afternoon; Lush Life; The Thrill Is Gone; Opus in Chartreuse Cha Cha; The Night We Called It a Day; Early Autumn; Take the “A” Train; Theme & Sign-off.
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: Jazz Journey
by Jack Bowers
For those who thought that reissues of albums by the Stan Kenton Orchestra had faded away as the well ran dry, think again: from Sounds of Yesteryear comes a welcome and invigorating Jazz Journey, traversing half a dozen concerts by the superb Kenton Orchestra that consist for the most part of unissued material from the years ...
