Results for "Stan Kenton"

Article: Album Review

The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 15, 2009

The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...

Article: Interview

Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist

by R.J. DeLuke
March 16, 2009

There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...

Article: Big Band Report

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2009

The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...

Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2009

Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

News: Obituary

Vic Lewis (1919-2009)

February 12, 2009

Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...

Article: Profile

Candido: Fountain of Youth

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2008

By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...

Album

Cool Hot & Swingin'

By Stan Kenton

Label: Tantara
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Opener; My Funny Valentine; What

Video

Waltz of the Prophets

Featuring the music of Stan Kenton
Duration: 6:39
December 15, 2007

After Stan Kenton briefly discusses his work in the field of jazz education with program host Oscar Brown, Jr., Kenton leads his big band (further enlarged with the addition of the mellophonium section) in a perfromance of Dee Barton's "Waltz of the Prophets".

Article: Album Review

Stan Kenton: Cool Hot & Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
July 18, 2007

Cool Hot & Swingin', the seventh in an ongoing series of Stan Kenton treasures unearthed by Bill Lichtenauer's ever-resourceful Tantara Productions, recaps a splendid concert performance in February 1956 at the Civic Auditorium in San Bernardino, CA. This was a time when Kenton had pared the trombone and reed sections to four members each and added ...

Album

Sophisticated Approach

By Stan Kenton

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.