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Standards in Silhouette

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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Stan Kenton Conducts the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra

By Stan Kenton

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Fanfare; Prelude and Fugue; Passacaglia and Fugue; Music for an Unwritten Play; Adventure in Emotion, Pts. 1-5: Pathos/Anger/Tranquility/Joy/Love-Hate-Love; Piece for Soft Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion

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Stan Kenton: Stan Kenton Conducts the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra

Read "Stan Kenton Conducts the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra" reviewed by William Grim

by William Grim
November 16, 2002

This album is a compilation of the best compositions from the first season of Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra, an early attempt to create a jazz orchestra in residence that didn't travel the country doing one- nighters. Although the organization only lasted for three seasons, it was an artistic success and is a model now ...

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Stan Kenton: Adventures in Blues

Read "Adventures in Blues" reviewed by William Grim

by William Grim
November 16, 2002

This is one of the best albums made by the mellophonium band of Stan Kenton, which featured a complete section of mellophoniums (an instrument somewhere between a French horn and a flugelhorn), in addition to the usual components of trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm. This may be the most swinging of all of Kenton's albums because ...

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Stan Kenton: Adventures in Jazz

by William Grim
November 13, 2002

This is one of the finest albums ever recorded by the remarkable Stan Kenton Orchestra. It features two compositions by the composer/trombonist/drummer Dee Barton, "Turtle Talk" and "Waltz of the Prophets," that are among the best-known works from the Kenton library. Barton later went on to fame (like those other Kenton stalwarts, Pete Rugolo and Lennie ...

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Stan Kenton: The Innovations Orchestra

Read "The Innovations Orchestra" reviewed by William Grim

by William Grim
November 13, 2002

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 ...