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The Stan Kenton Orchestra

The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Stompin' at Newport

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 ...

Odyssey 1951-68

By The Stan Kenton Orchestra

Label: Astral Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc 1

The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Odyssey 1951-68

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

The Kenton Orchestra’s Odyssey, comprising previously unreleased concert dates from 1951–68, was assembled from various sources (audio tapes) by John Loeffler’s superb Astral Jazz label, which already has given Kenton partisans the orchestra’s definitive in–person recording, the magnificent Live at Keesler Air Force Base, 1958, and at least three other superlative concerts by the unrivaled Kenton ...