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Stan Kenton
"Artistry In Kenton" Vol. 1-3 1937-1946

Album DK 2001 on Jazz Unlimited label
Jazz (Swing)

This triple-CD collection (spanning the years 1937-46) not only includes largely unheard facets of Stan Kenton’s early musical life, it also offers the greatest collection of very rare Kenton performances to date. Among the rare sessions included here are those from 1938 with the Vido Musso Orchestra and Herb Jeffrey, both of which pre-date the creation of Kenton’s own orchestra. Also included are some of the earliest performances by future jazz superstars such as Art Pepper, Stan Getz and Shelly Manne, plus the very first recording of vocalist June Christy. Also to be found here are occasional commentaries by Frank Sinatra and pertinent recollections by Kenton himself. Most of the music included on these three CD’s (74 numbers in all!) is original material of the post-swing/ ”early modern” genre, plus a few evergreens.

Musicians

	Stan Kenton p, 1911-1979 US album by, soloist, piano, arranged by, adapted by, written by, written by, orchestrated by
	Budd Johnson ts, 1910-1984 US arranged by
	Joe Dixon cl, US soloist, clarinet
	Jimmy Farrell , vocals
	Vido Musso ts, sax, 1913-1982 US soloist, tenor saxophone
	Pat Kaye , vocals
	Don Daniels , vocals
	Nick Buono tr, 1917-1993 US soloist, trumpet
	Russell Brown tb, vocals
	Jack Ordean sax, as, US soloist, clarinet, soloist, alto saxophone
	Joe Rizzo , arranged by, written by, written by, arranged by
	Red Dorris sax, ts, vocals, soloist, tenor saxophone, soloist, tenor saxophone, vocals
	Chico Alvarez tr, 1920-1992 CA soloist, trumpet, soloist, trumpet, muted
	Ralph Yaw , arranged by, written by
	Billy Strayhorn p, 1915-1967 US written by, arranged by
	Karl George tr, 1913-1978 US soloist, trumpet
	Dolly Mitchell , vocals
	Charlie Shirley , arranged by
	Six Hats And A Miss , vocals
	Gary Cooper , 1901-1961 US vocals
	Buddy Baker , US arranged by, orchestrated by
	Charles Shirley , US arranged by
	John Carroll tr, soloist, trumpet
	Dave Matthews as, sax, *1967 US soloist, tenor saxophone, soloist, tenor saxophone, arranged by
	Anita O'Day voc, 1919-2006 US vocals
	Gene Howard voc, 1921-1993 US arranged by, soloist, clarinet, vocals, vocals, arranged by
	Pete Rugolo key, tr, 1915-2011 US written by, orchestrated by, arranged by
	Boots Mussulli as, 1915-1967 US arranged by, soloist, alto saxophone, written by, orchestrated by
	Gene Roland tr, 1921-1982 US arranged by, vocals, soloist, valve trombone, tenor
	Emmett Carls ts, soloist, tenor saxophone
	Eddie Meyers as, sax, soloist, alto saxophone
	Phil Moore p, 1918-1987 US arranged by, written by
	Stan Getz ts, 1927-1991 US soloist, tenor saxophone
	June Christy voc, 1925-1990 US vocals
	Buddy Childers tr, 1926-2007 US soloist, trumpet
	Ken Hanna tr, 1921-1982 US arranged by
	Ray Wetzel tr, 1924-1951 US soloist, trumpet, written by
	Kai Winding tb, 1922-1983 US soloist, tenor trombone
	Chico Alvarez bgo, cng, voc, soloist, trumpet
	Betty Norton , vocals
	The Moon Maids voc, US vocals
	Vaughn Monroe voc, 1911-1973 US vocals
	Jimmy Simms tb, US soloist, tenor trombone
	Shelly Manne dr, 1920-1984 US featuring

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