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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 ...
Art Pepper
by Robert Spencer
It's all in his remarkable autobiography, Straight Life. Art Pepper was a junkie. First and foremost. He spent long stretches in prison, had innumerable wild adventures, and used drugs to the end of his life. He spent years devoted entirely to scoring the next dose. But in and through it all, he somehow managed to become ...
The Jazz Masters - 100 Years Of Swing
By Stan Kenton
Label: Point Entertainment
Released: 1996
