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The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Stompin' at Newport
by Jack Bowers
Today, more than four decades after the fact, the music on the Stan Kenton Orchestra’s memorable appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival sounds as fresh and invigorating as ever, even though there is nothing on this long-overdue release from Pablo that Kenton fans won’t have heard perhaps hundreds of times on other occasions. From Bill ...
Stan Kenton: With the Danish Radio Big Band
by Jack Bowers
In March 1966 Stan Kenton spent a week in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the invitation of Ib Glindemann, director of the New Dance Band of Radio Denmark (popularly known as the Danish Radio Big Band, now the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra). During that time he conducted the DRBB in concert at Copenhagen’s Radio Concert Hall. As a ...
Stan Kenton: Adventures in Time
by William Grim
Out of the entire recorded oeuvre of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Adventures in Time is one of the most adventurous and musically satisfying records. The album features eight compositions by Johnny Richards arranged in a suitelike totality, with the title "A Concerto for Orchestra." If Richard's "Concerto for Orchestra" bears little harmonic resemblance to ...
Adventures in Blues
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Reuben's Blues; Dragonwyck; Blue Ghost; Exit Stage Left; Night at the Gold Nugget; Formula SK-32; Aphrodisia; Fitz; Blues Story; Night at the Gold Nugget (alternate take); Ten Bars Ago; Lady Luck
Adventures in Jazz
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Turtle Talk; Stairway To The Stars; Limehouse Blues; Malaguena; Misty;
Waltz Of The Prophets; Body And Soul; It Might As Well Be Spring; Waltz Of
The Prophets (First Version); Body And Soul (First Version)
Sketches on Standards
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sophisticated Lady; Begin the Beguine; Lover Man; Pennies from Heaven; Over the Rainbow; Fascinatin’ Rhythm; There’s a Small Hotel; Shadow Waltz; Harlem Nocturne; Stella by Starlight; Dark Eyes; Malague
Easy Go
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Easy Go; Love for Sale; Viva Prado; Something New (Sunset Tower);
Theme for Alto; Riff Rhapsody; Dynaflow; What's New?; Jump for Joe;
Night Watch; Francesca; Soliloquy; Lazy Daisy; Mambo Rhapsody; Riff
Raff; Stardust; Bags and Baggage; Bill's Blues; Cool Eyes; Beehive
Kenton Showcase
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Theme of Four Values; A Study for Bass; Blues Before and After;
Bacante; Thisbe; Egdon Heath; Sweets; Dusk; Bags; Hava Havana; Solo
for Buddy; The Opener; Fearless Finlay; Theme and Variations; Kingfish;
In Lighter Vein; Of All Things; Lover Man My Funny Valentine Bags
(alternate take)
The Innovations Orchestra
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Mirage; Conflict; Solitaire; Soliloquy; Theme For Sunday; Amazonia;
Lonesome Road; Trajectories; Incident In Jazz; Cuban Episode; Evening
In Pakistan; Salute; Mardi Gras; In Veradero; Jolly Rogers; Blues In Riff;
Cello-logy; Art Pepper; Halls Of Brass; Maynard Ferguson; Shelly Manne;
June Christy; House Of Strings; Round Robin; Coop's Solo; Sambo;
Ennui; Samana; Coop's Solo (alternate take); Salute
Standards in Silhouette
By Stan Kenton
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Willow Weep for Me; The Thrill Is Gone; The Meaning of the Blues; When
Sunny Gets Blue; Ill Wind; Django; I Get Along Without You Very Well;
Lonely Woman; Lazy Afternoon
