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,...
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Mellophone (section Stan Kenton's instrument)
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:...
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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...
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Columbia High School (Georgia) (section Stan Kenton)
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...
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Bob Curnow (section with Stan Kenton)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lennie Niehaus (section Stan Kenton Orchestra)
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...
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Dee Barton (section Professional work and Stan Kenton)
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...
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March 12, 1957) was an American composer, best known for his work with Stan Kenton. Graettinger grew up in Ontario, California, United States, learning...
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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...
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Tony Campise (section With Stan Kenton)
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...
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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...
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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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Bob Lively (section Stan Kenton years)
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...
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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...
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(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...
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Side B: "The Schnitzelbank Polka" With Stan Kenton Stan Kenton's Milestones (Capitol, 1943-47 [1950]) Stan Kenton Classics (Capitol, 1944-47 [1952]) Encores...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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and politician Stanley Stan Isaacs (1929–2013), American sportswriter and columnist Stan Jones (disambiguation) Stanley Stan Kenton (1911–1979), American...
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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...
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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...
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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 NBC Orchestra...
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Maynard Ferguson (section Kenton and Hollywood)
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...
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was the daughter of jazz orchestra leader Stan Kenton. Kenton was born in Los Angeles to Stan and Violet Kenton (née Peters), the only child from the musician's...
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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...
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Stan Kenton Presents is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton with his "Innovations" Orchestra featuring performances recorded in 1950 and originally...
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