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Mart Kenney and the New Ballroom Orchestra: Swinging Musical Showcase

Read "Swinging Musical Showcase" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Mart Kenney, Canada’s answer to Benny Carter, has been playing the saxophone for more than seventy of his ninety years and leading a dance band nearly as long, having formed Mart Kenney’s Western Gentlemen in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early ’30s before he was old enough to vote. March 12, 2000, was designated “Mart Kenney Day” by the mayor of Vancouver in honor of Kenney’s 90th birthday. The band itself celebrated by recording this Swinging Musical Showcase, proving decisively ...

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