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Stan Kenton: Lover (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

After lulling us with an intro fit for a biopic of some doomed Romantic Composer, including stating the melody as a C...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

To Stan Kenton, bigger was better. More instruments, expanded ranges, wider voicings, grand gestures, GREATER VOLUME....

Stan Kenton: Monotony (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

In 1948, at the pinnacle of success, bandleader Stan Kenton—who at his wife's urging had entered psychoanalysis—annou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Stan Kenton: The Peanut Vendor (alternative review) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

A Cuban song that was the USA's first Latin crossover hit (1931) gets a facelift from the much-maligned Stan Kenton. ...

Stan Kenton: Unison Riff (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Even though Kenton led a composer/arranger’s band in many ways, a number of his musicians later became major jazz per...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Machito (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band’s music attracted the finest young instrumentalists, as the band provided an excellent forum for new ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: All the Things You Are (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

Kenton admired Gerry Mulligan, but didn't like his attitude or his insistence on everything played his way. Yet for a...

Stan Kenton: All About Ronnie (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Chris Connor was recommended to Kenton by June Christy. Connor did not stay very long, but her stint with the band ma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Elegy for Alto (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

After disbanding his "Artistry in Rhythm" ensemble, Kenton reformed the band and called the resulting music "Progress...

Stan Kenton: Eager Beaver (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Kenton formed his band in 1940 and played a successful 1941 summer season at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, Calif...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band was the staff orchestra on the Bob Hope radio program when Anita O’Day joined the band. O’Day was alr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: The Peanut Vendor (1947) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

More well known that the first popular American version recorded by Don Azpiazu’s Orchestra in 1931, this arrangement...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE LATIN JAZZ CLASSICS

         Percussionist,  artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's n...

Stan Kenton: Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days and One Hour Blues (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

This is one of vocalist June Christy's best records with the Kenton band. Originally from Chicago, she married tenorm...

Stan Kenton: Bogota (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 03, 08

Written for Ken Hanna's own band and recorded in 1955, the composer restyled it as a feature for the Kenton ensemble'...

Stan Kenton: Eager Beaver (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

In 1943, Stan Kenton vied for personnel with the military draft. Kenton was a formidable presence, but no match for U...

Stan Kenton: Hav-a-Havana (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

From a jazz standpoint, the ensemble Kenton led that featured the music of Willis Holman is the highpoint of Stan’s c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: The Opener (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

Kenton may not have been entirely comfortable with Bill Holman's musical direction, but he bought everything that Bil...

Stan Kenton: Gee, Officer Krupke (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 19, 09

Kenton's West Side Story is how it was cover-billed, and like most Kenton projects this one divided the jazz aud...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

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