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Album Review

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: Concert Kenton

Read "Concert Kenton" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There's no question that Stan Kenton led one of the more successful and popular orchestras of the storied Big Band Era, winning various yearly polls while drawing large crowds to his jazz concerts and dance performances from coast to coast. But Kenton always wanted something more: to enlighten as well as entertain. Music, he felt, should be cerebral as well as visceral. And so he formed the Neophonic Orchestra to play the sort of forward-looking jazz he felt many listeners ...

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Obituary

Milt Bernhart, West Coast trombonist, 1926-2004

Milt Bernhart, West Coast trombonist, 1926-2004

Source: All About Jazz

Milt Bernhart b. 25 May 1926, Valparaiso, IN d. 22 January 2004, age 77, Glendale, CA Trombonist Milt Bernhart, a treasured icon of West Coast jazz, died of multiple organ failure on January 22, 2004 in Glendale, California. He was 77 years old.

Bernhart was as good-natured a man as jazz ever produced, self-deprecating and always able to see the humor in a situation. He began playing the tuba at ten but had switched ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Concert Kenton

Sounds of Yesteryear
2020

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Summer Of '51

Garland
1987

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Something Else

Bethlehem Records
1956

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Modern Brass

Qwest Records
1955

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Jam Session Vol. 2

Skylark Records (2)
1954

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Cool and Crazy

RCA Victor
1953

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