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Contemporary Concepts

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. What's New 2. Stella By Starlight 3. I've Got You Under My Skin 4. Cherokee 5. Stompin' at the Savoy 6. Yesterdays 7. Limelight 8. Sunset Tower 9. Opus in Chartreuse 10. Opus in Turquoise 11. Opus in Beige

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With the Danish Radio Big Band

By Stan Kenton

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

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Stompin' at Newport

By Stan Kenton

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

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Stan Kenton: Contemporary Concepts

Read "Contemporary Concepts" reviewed by Russell Moon

by Russell Moon
November 3, 2003

Here's your trivia question for today: Who was the third man to be elected to Downbeat Magazine's Hall of Fame, the year before Duke Ellington? You guessed right if you said Stan Kenton. Contemporary Concepts was recorded in July of 1955, and it offers six standards arranged by Bill Holman and one by Gerry ...

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Stan Kenton: With the Danish Radio Big Band

Read "With the Danish Radio Big Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 3, 2003

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 ...

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The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Stompin' at Newport

Read "Stompin' at Newport" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 3, 2003

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 ...

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Stan Kenton: Adventures in Time

Read "Adventures in Time" reviewed by William Grim

by William Grim
January 25, 2003

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 ...

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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

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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)

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Stompin' At Newport

By Stan Kenton

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Opener; Artistry in Rhythm; Stompin' At the Savoy; Yesterdays; Intermission Riff; 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West; Everything Happens To Me; The Peanut Vendor; The End of a Love Affair; Young Blood; La Suerte de los Tontos; The Big Chase.