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Stan Kenton: The Innovations Orchestra
by William Grim
In 1950 and 1951 Stan Kenton assembled a 40-piece orchestra (his standard 19-piece big band supplemented by strings) and presented the first significant attempt at evolving the dance band into an ensemble more closely resembling the symphony orchestra. The resulting music was what later came to be known as "third stream," that is, combining the elements ...
Stan Kenton: Easy Go
by William Grim
Easy Go is a compilation of straight ahead charts recorded by the Kenton band in the years 1950-52 between tours of the Innovations Orchestra. While an artistic triumph, the Innovations Orchestra was not so successful financially, and Kenton had to record a number of albums devoted to just dance and swing tunes to recuperate his losses. ...
Stan Kenton: Kenton Showcase
by William Grim
This re-release is composed of two Kenton albums from the 1950s showcasing the arrangements of Bill Russo and Bill Holman. Russo and Holman were more responsible for defining the Kenton sound than any other arrangers besides Kenton himself and Peter Rugolo. It is a testament to the greatest of Kenton's bands that they could acccomodate both ...
Stan Kenton: Standards in Silhouette
by William Grim
There was always much more to the Stan Kenton band than stratospheric trumpets and walls of sound. Nobody could play a ballad quite like Kenton. Lugubious tempos so slow they added an extra dimension of emotion to the overall effect. Dynamic control so profound that it seemed at times almost superhuman. And arrangements of such startling ...
Stan Kenton: Stompin' At Newport
by David Rickert
For Stan Kenton fans this CD is legendary, rumored to exist but never released. Simply put, Norman Granz recorded one of the finest editions of the Kenton band at the 1957 Newport festival, but the recording was never issued until now. Stompin’ At Newport is a fairly comprehensive overview of what Kenton was up to at ...
Stan Kenton: Sketches on Standards
by Jack Bowers
Like Portraits on Standards, which was released earlier by Capitol / Blue Note, Sketches is by and large an eleborate showcase for several of the wonderful soloists who earned their reputations with Stan Kenton’s pace–setting orchestra in the early ’50s when these recordings were made. As on Portraits, most of the arrangements are by Bill (now ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Live
By Stan Kenton
Label: Hitchcock Media Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: CD 1 Stan Kenton "Hello"; Didn't We; A Little Minor Booze; Chiapas; What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life; MacArthur Park; Malaga; Terry Talk; Tico Tico; Sodomy (from Hair) CD 2 Girl Talk; Stan Kenton Orchestra Introduction; Bogota; Intermission Riff; Love for Sale; Hank's Opener; Peanut Vendor; Artistry on Rhythm
Stan Kenton Orchestra: Live
by Dave Nathan
Big bands may have started to disappear from the entertainment scene after War World II; but not Stan Kenton's. Unlike those other groups which hung in there like Ellington and Basie, Kenton virtually discarded playing for dance dates concentrating more and more on concerts. This allowed him to develop and play arrangements which became more complex ...
