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Sophisticated Approach

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: But Beautiful; Darn That Dream; It Might As Well Be Spring; Moonlight Becomes You; How Do I Look In Blue; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; How Long Has This Been Going On; Memoirs Of A Lady; Time After Time; Easy To Love; My One And Only Love; Like Someone In Love; Some Enchanted Evening; Make Someone Happy; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Gigi; Bewitched Bothered And Bewildered; Magic Moment.

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Stan Kenton: Sophisticated Approach

Read "Sophisticated Approach" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Sophisticated Approach is a reissue of eighteen iconic ballad arrangements by Stan Kenton, originally recorded in 1961 with his unique and controversial four-piece mellophonium horn section. The ballroom circuit was the life-blood of the Kenton Mellophonium Orchestra in the late '50s and early '60s, and this album, arranged by Lennie Niehaus, was intended as an addition ...

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Stan Kenton: Sophisticated Approach

Read "Sophisticated Approach" reviewed by Chris May


The Donald Rumsfeld of American big band jazz in the 1940s and 1950s, Stan Kenton didn't so much embrace his audiences as shock-n-awe them into submission with relentless carpet bombing. Kenton's monstrous orchestras--the most overblown being the 43-piece Innovations In Modern Music outfit of the early 1950s--specialised in heavy-footed, portentous, screaming brass performances which left zero ...

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Viva Kenton!

Label: Point Entertainment
Released: 2005

Album

Cuban Episodes

Label: Point Entertainment
Released: 2005

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Back to Balboa

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. The Big Chase (Paich) - 4:17 2. Rendezvous at Sunset (Richards) - 4:17 3. Speak Low (Nash/Weill) - 3:28 4. My Old Flame (Coslow/Johnston) - 4:02 5. Out of This World (Arlen/Mercer) - 5:44 6. Begin the Beguine (Porter) - 3:41 7. Get Out of Town (Porter) - 2:38 8. Royal Blue (Holman) - 5:52 9. I Concentrate on You (Porter) - 3:21 10. Beyond the Blue Horizon (Harling/Robin/Whiting) - 3:35 11. Two Shades of Autumn (Coccia) - 3:54 12. Love Letters (Heyman/Young) - 2:26 13. Desiderata (Coccia) - 3:11 14. Artistry in Blues (Kenton) - 2:45

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Stan Kenton: Back to Balboa

Read "Back to Balboa" reviewed by Mitchell Seidel


By 1957, the Big Band Era was pretty well over. Fortunately pianist Stan Kenton never got the message. In fact, he continued to tour with various aggregations well into the ‘70s, ultimately laying the groundwork for modern jazz education with school performances and clinics. While the handwriting may have been on the wall in ...

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The Stan Kenton Legacy

Read "The Stan Kenton Legacy" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Submitted on behalf of George Harris Before there were Dead Heads, Trekkies and even Beatlemaniacs, there were Kentonites. It’s difficult to believe that people like your father or uncle could have such unadulterated devotion to a leader, a band and an attitude about music, but it’s true. Sixty years ago, Stan Kenton put the musical world ...

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With the Danish Radio Big Band

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Artistry in Rhythm; Malaguena; I

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Stompin' at Newport

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Opener; Artistry in Rhythm; Stompin


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