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Ralph A. Miriello: Marvin Stamm and Mike Holober Serenade at Nyack Library's Carnegie Room
with matching full tightly trimmed beard finished the image of a confident, seasoned performer. His past includes stints with Stan Kenton and Woody Herman orchestras as well as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and a continued association with the George Gruntz from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Frances Monson, wife of Prophet dies at 85
shared a love of big band music and according to President Monson's official biography they enjoyed dancing to Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Glen Miller and other big bands. They got engaged following World War II and some schooling in the spring of 1947. They from Utah Daily Herald Read more »
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VIDEO/DVD: Short: Stan Kenton in 1945
is as good as a day as any for Stan Kenton. The following Warner Bros. biographical short was filmed in December 1945 and released in '46. Here's the band personnel in October '45: Buddy Childers, John Anderson, Russ Burgher, Bob Lymperis (tp) Ray Wetzel (tp,vcl) from All About Jazz Read more »
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SNJO: The Incredible Sound of Stan Kenton, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Kenton may have died in 1979 and had his golden years, depending on whom you speak to, 20 or 30 years before that, but his music can still sound as if the arrangers' ink is still drying on the orchestral scores. STAN Kenton may have died in 1979 and had his from Herald Scotland Read more »
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Bringing back the original wall of sound
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra next week gets to grips with another great name from the annals of big band jazz, Stan Kenton. Stand by for screaming trumpets and what was described as a “wall of sound” way before Phil Spector annexed the term. Jazz fans from The Scotsman Read more »
