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News: Radio

Radio's Voice Of Jazz Launches Internet Broadcasts

April 15, 2014

Palm Springs, CA ― Legendary KFI jazz radio announcer Scott Ellsworth launched scottsplacetm.org, an online weekend broadcast where he plays both the early and contemporary sounds of leading jazz artists and where listeners can soon find an extensive library of his personal interviews with the icons of the jazz world. “My very first guest interview at ...

Article: Catching Up With

The Four Freshmen: Tradition and Innovation in a New Century

by Richard J Salvucci
February 28, 2014

The year was 1963. The President of the United States was John F Kennedy. It was late Summer. I was riding back from the Jersey shore, returning from vacation. I was twelve years old. My Dad always had music on, always and everywhere, but especially, in the car, a two-tone 1955 Buick Special. I'm ...

Article: Interview

Cava Menzies and Nick Phillips: Their Moment

by Bob Kenselaar
February 13, 2014

Every once in a while, a couple of jazz musicians who've never played with each other before find themselves together on a bandstand, and something special really clicks. They just jell musically as if they've been playing together all their lives. Pianist Cava Menzies and trumpeter Nick Phillips experienced such an encounter not long ago, when ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Nova Jazz Orchestra: Concerto Nova & the Jazz Music of W.A. Mathieu

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2014

The Nova Jazz Orchestra, which was founded in the twin cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN, more than two decades ago and has been on an upward curve ever since, was formally introduced to the music of W.A. Mathieu--now fondly known to members of the orchestra as “Uncle Billy"--in 2011as part of the two-CD set ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Road Scholars

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2014

Road Scholars? A clever title indeed, but these gentlemen (and three ladies) are more akin to “road maestros," an appraisal that is abundantly clear from A to Z on this latest recording by trumpeter Mike Vax's turbo-charged Stan Kenton Alumni Band, taped at various concerts during the band's 2013 spring tour, a two-week, three-thousand-mile odyssey that ...

News: Video / DVD

Stan Kenton: Germany, 1953

January 6, 2014

Between 1949 and 1951, Stan Kenton led a 39-piece band known as the Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra. The band's dreamy, Wagner-esque jazz arrangements were hip for a brief period but soon took on the characteristics of a wobbly truck transporting too much fine furniture. The orchestrations didn't click with young audiences and Kenton's musicians grew ...

Article: Interview

Brian Carpenter: In Between The Cracks

by DanMichael Reyes
January 2, 2014

To write that Brian Carpenter has had an interesting career would be an incomplete statement since he holds so many. By day Carpenter is an engineer, but there's also his radio shows, his acting career, a film he's working on about Albert Ayler, his band Brian Carpenter and the Confessions where he sings and composes, and ...

Album

Stan Kenton: Road Shows

By Stan Kenton

Label: Tantara
Released: 2013
Track listing: Walking Shoes; Stella by Starlight; What’s New; They Didn’t Believe Me; My Heart Stood Still; In This Whole Wide World; Recipe for Making Love; Angel Eyes; Poinciana; Route 66; Unforgettable; It’s a Blue World; Intermission Riff; Stan Introduces 1955 Band; Lullaby of Birdland; It Never Entered My Mind; You Don’t Know What Love Is; Back in Your Own Backyard; Fearless Finlay; September Song; Love for Sale.

News: TV / Film

Early Stan Kenton on Film

December 27, 2013

Back in the 1940s, when radio, record company and movie studio efforts began to merge, shorts were viewed as a highly strategic way to promote bands in movie theaters before feature films came on. Here's a series of short films made with Stan Kenton... Jammin' in the Panoram (1942), with Howard Rumsey on bass... Reed ...

Article: Album Review

Jack Mouse Group: Range of Motion

Read "Range of Motion" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 20, 2013

Drummer and educator Jack Mouse has a versatile and prolific career. In addition to playing, among many others, with trumpeter Clark Terry, saxophonist James Moody and pianist Stan Kenton he has been actively involved in education as a faculty member at various institutions and as a writer for percussion magazines. His debut album Range of Motion ...