the field of jazz education, creating the Stan Kenton Jazz Camp in 1959 at Indiana University. Stan Kenton was born on December 15, 1911, in Wichita,...

ISBN 1-57441-284-1. Scooter Pirtle The Stan Kenton Mellophoniums (1993), Middlehornleader.com Lillian Arganian, Stan Kenton: The Man and His Music (East Lansing:...

musician who served as a trombonist, staff arranger and producer for the Stan Kenton Orchestra during the 1960s and 1970s. As a composer and arranger, he...

High School for the Junior-Senior Prom. On March 12, 1973, Stan Kenton and the Stan Kenton Orchestra gave an afternoon workshop and an evening concert...

unusual time signatures. He is best known as a big band composer for Stan Kenton and the Don Ellis Orchestra, as well as the founder and long-time director...

American pop and jazz singer. She was the second wife of bandleader Stan Kenton. She had a short career in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ann Richards...

for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for...

instruments; Campise is most recognized for his association with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the mid-1970s. Campise was born and raised in Houston, Texas...

band and motion pictures. He is best known for his association with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Dee Barton was born in Houston, Mississippi, in 1937. The...

direction that Stan was considering. While I was away on a short trip with Charlie Barnet, Gene took the recording to Kenton, and when I returned, Stan called...

on the West Coast jazz scene. He played with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and served as one of Kenton's primary staff arrangers. He also played with Ray...

March 12, 1957) was an American composer, best known for his work with Stan Kenton. Graettinger grew up in Ontario, California, United States, learning...

Studios which become the last LP Stan Kenton and Creative World would produce just before Kenton's death in 1979 (Stan Kenton presents Gabe Baltazar), his...

City of Glass, an album originally issued as a 10" LP by Stan Kenton, consists entirely of the music of Bob Graettinger. The original album has been reconstituted...

during the 1940s swing era. Lively was a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra from 1941 to 1945. Kenton's orchestra spent the summer of 1941 playing regularly...

Lionel Hampton. A period based in Los Angeles with Stan Kenton was brief. Following a comment from Kenton that his main influence, Lester Young, was too simple...

Active primarily in West Coast jazz, Pepper first came to prominence in Stan Kenton's big band. He was known for his emotionally charged performances and...

a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for...

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...

during the 1940s, and in the next decade had a stint with bandleader Stan Kenton. Levey retired from music in the 1970s to work as a photographer. He...

(Atlantic, 1976) Kimiko Kasai, This Is My Love (CBS/Sony, 1975) Stan Kenton, Stan Kenton Classics (Capitol, 1952) – rec. 1944–47 Huey Lewis and the News...

worked extensively with Woody Herman and in 1950 and 1951 he played with Stan Kenton. On June 7, 1953, Rogers and his orchestra, including Johnny "Guitar"...

being one of the first to play jazz solos on oboe. Cooper worked in Stan Kenton's band starting in 1945 and married the band's singer, June Christy, two...

1950) Stan Kenton Presents (Capitol, 1950) Stan Kenton Classics (Capitol, 1952) Popular Favorites by Stan Kenton (Capitol, 1953) The Kenton Era (Capitol...

Metronome, 1948 Stan Kenton's bands have been described as "the loudest of the big bands" with "the shattering effect of the Kenton band's loud, dissonant...

and politician Stanley Stan Isaacs (1929–2013), American sportswriter and columnist Stan Jones (disambiguation) Stanley Stan Kenton (1911–1979), American...

After the war, Winding was a member of Benny Goodman's orchestra, then Stan Kenton's. He participated in Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, appearing on...

1982) With Stan Kenton The Kenton Era (1940–54) Stan Kenton's Milestones (1943–47) A Presentation of Progressive Jazz (1947) Stan Kenton Classics (1947)...

music career started in 1972 when he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra. After four years with Kenton, he joined Maynard Ferguson for two years. In 1978...

Stan Kenton during the 1940s. Critics were initially wary of the idiom. Dizzy Gillespie wrote in his autobiography: "They tried to make Stan Kenton a...