Stan Kenton - MacArthur Park (4)

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra recorded in London 6 February 1972.

Stan Kenton, Mike Vax, Dennis Noday, Jay Saunders, Ray Brown, Joe Marcinkiewicz, Dick Shearer, Mike Jamieson, Fred Carter, Mike Wallace, Phil Herring, Quin Davis, Richard Torres, Kim Frizell, Willie Maiden, Chuck Carter, Ramon Lopez, John Worster, John Von Ohlen.

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Music

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• stan
• kenton
• orchestra
• big
• band
• jazz

[junkyman2]

Very immature comment, probably doesn't understand what bands like Kenton/Rich/Herman etc..mean to jazz. I mean look at that trumpet line up, thats world class as I'm sure all the players are.

[elmomustdie12]

Happy 99th Birthday, Stan!! 

[Gouiverneur]

The responders who were offended that Kenton musicians didn't play 'real jazz' didn't know the difference between 'big band' music (Glen Miller, Kenton, Ellington), which played within arranged charts (with some solos) - still being played six decades later, and various jazz forms from dixieland, be-bop, 'West Coast, fusion, etc. where the combo starts and ends with the same arranged theme, with each player improvising around that theme - sets could vary from night to night.

[MrGeorgeLake]

bari = Wilie Maiden

[bizyz]

the baritone sax player looks like pepper adams but that cant be.

[bonzo328]

Happy Birthday Stan... Big 100! ( year!)

[earcher72]

Played this arrangement in HS...Nice to see this here!

[atadsatirical]

Im a huge jazz fna but i absolutely hate it when these great musicians sellout and play this crap, i know its not as bad as the rubbish we hear on the rdio these days, but the real stuff, jazz of the first half of the 20th century, but more even the mainstream stuff later on, that was the stuff these guys should be playing

[NanBayKid1]

Ramon Lopez added so much to this Band and he gets very little credit. I really enjoyed listening and watching him play.He was in Tampa later on.

[IOLTA]

Dick Shearer = the bomb. What a lead bone.

[CarolinaNIM]

@HorsePussy Yes! As I wrote elsewhere, I went the Kenton Band Clinic just a couple of months after this video was made. Dick Shearer was lead.

[yofool987]

I was fortunate enough to see Stan and his band live a couple of times. Simply awesome talent, larger than life.