Stan Kenton Band Clinics were summer programs founded by Stan Kenton in 1959. Kenton conceived the idea out of concern that education of jazz and all its...
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his service as an educator through his Stan Kenton Band Clinics. The "Kenton Style" continues to permeate big bands at the high school and collegiate level...
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Bob Curnow (category Experimental big band bandleaders)
Big Band Plays The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. His compositions and arrangements are heavily influenced by earlier writers for the Stan Kenton Orchestra...
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American drummer who has played with various bands and solo artists. Earning a scholarship to Stan Kenton Band Clinics and joining the Musicians Union at age...
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affiliation with the Stan Kenton Band Clinics. Trombonist Phil Wilson joined the faculty in 1965. His student ensemble, the Dues Band, helped introduce contemporary...
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over the fourth part, while Mike Beisner, a student under the Stan Kenton Band Clinics, was brought in to sing the third part, as well as to play trumpet...
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Jack Petersen (guitarist) (category United States Army Band musicians)
hired Petersen to teach with him at Stan Kenton Band Clinics. As of 1977, Petersen has been with Stan Kenton Band Clinics for some 17 years. 1962: Petersen...
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Bill Holman (musician) (category Big band bandleaders)
Stan) for this, but, what the hell, we both got something out of it." Holman also become a participant and clinician of the Stan Kenton Band Clinics as...
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Conte Candoli (category The Tonight Show Band members)
jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's...
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Dee Barton (section Professional work and Stan Kenton)
trombonist, big band drummer, and prolific composer for big band and motion pictures. He is best known for his association with the Stan Kenton Orchestra....
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in Animal House (1978) Stan Kenton Gamma / University of Illinois Pianist and bandleader who created Stan Kenton Band Clinics Andrew Lauer Gamma-Lambda...
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Mic Gillette (section Band Albums)
Stan Kenton, and other big bands. A child prodigy, Gillette picked up the trumpet and was reading music by age four. At age 15, he joined the band that...
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Kye Palmer (category The Tonight Show Band members)
source of inspiration for him was being a part of the well known Stan Kenton Band Clinics at the University of Redlands. After high school he first attended...
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trumpet player. Aug 14-28, 1960 – The Lab Band was the demonstration band at the Stan Kenton National Band Camp at Indiana University Summer 1961 – Notre...
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jazz band and the Daddio Band (of older professionals). Both were led by jazz educator Herb Patnoe, who was the director of Stan Kenton's Jazz Clinics. Since...
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Gary Burton (category GRP All-Star Big Band members)
Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1960–61 and the Stan Kenton Clinic at Indiana University in 1960. He studied with Herb Pomeroy and soon...
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two years later. He studied with Tony Crisetello and then attended Stan Kenton clinics at Indiana University and Michigan State University in the early...
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Dennis Hayslett (section Guest conducting and clinics)
prestigious clinics and conventions, including the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic, the American School Band Directors Association Clinic, the...
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Jay Saunders (category Big band trumpet players)
level. In the 1970s, Saunders was a lead trumpeter with big bands — notably the Stan Kenton Orchestra (early seventies) — and a session musician in the...
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Kansas City Jazz Orchestra (category Big bands)
They connected with audiences through their tributes to Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Woody Herman, and even Kansas...
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Jon Faddis (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
pianist Stan Kenton and trumpeter Bill Catalano. Jon Faddis was born in Oakland, California, United States. At 18, he joined Lionel Hampton's big band before...
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Clem DeRosa (category Big band bandleaders)
(IAJE). Through the NAJE, DeRosa taught with the Stan Kenton Clinics where he collaborated with Kenton and other jazz education pioneers, including Gene...
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approximately 500 bands served the U.S. Army. The bands were categorized into three types: special bands, separate bands, and organization bands. The Army and...
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Waterfront. To prepare for his role, Sinatra spent time at drug rehabilitation clinics observing addicts going cold turkey. He also learned to play drums from...
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Newport and at the Hollywood Bowl, July 1986, (Jazz Band), Stan Getz 1988 Conducting in the Stan Kenton Style (Klavier), Al Yankee 1988 The Best of Bill...
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Michael Daugherty (category Concert band composers)
interviewed jazz artists who performed in Iowa, including Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, George Shearing, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and he wrote articles on their...
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Armando Peraza (category Santana (band) members)
The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. A highlight was performing with the Stan Kenton Band at the Hollywood Bowl. Through his friendship with Manne, he was introduced...
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Don Ellis (category Big band bandleaders)
"Synthesis", a composition by Ellis in which the Sextet performed alongside Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra. The concert took place in February 1966 at the...
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Neil Slater (category United States Army Band musicians)
degree in jazz studies. By 1981, his compositions had been performed by Stan Kenton, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Sal Salvador, Joe Morello, and Bobby Shew...
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p. 2149. ISBN 0-85112-939-0. Wilson, John S. (August 27, 1979). "Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies; Was Center of Jazz Controversies". The New York Times...
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