Audience favorite Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra returns to celebrate the music of Grammy Award-winning jazz bandleader, composer, and pianist Stan Kenton. Known for his innovative and brassy approach to ...

Roots is a most appropriate title for this series of concerts by the Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded in 1944-45 on behalf of the Armed Forces Radio Service. While the sessions do include a handful of ...

Stan Kenton recorded a piece called “Prologue: This is An Orchestra.” In the 10 minute work he introduces all the members of his jazz orchestra: the drummer, bassist, saxophonists, trumpet player, ...

Last December, the late composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton would have turned 100. Centennial celebrations have been happening since then; Jazz at Lincoln Center plans a two-night ...

WAVERLY — The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra will perform at Wartburg College on April 13. The concert begins at 7 p.m. in Neumann Auditorium. Tickets, $18 for adults ...

Officially, it is "the Mike Vax Big Band featuring alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra," but the ensemble that will perform Wednesday at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is usually called simply "The ...

The Boston Brass quintet performed a Christmas concert at BYU with local all-star brass players. The quintet performed arrangements of Christmas favorites from the Stan Kenton Orchestra. (Photo ...

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The Sound of Jazz by the legendary Stan Kenton Orchestra follows Part 1 of a Kenton Trilogy, Dance Time, and hopefully precedes a third component yet to be named. Although Kenton has been gone for ...