The Best of Stan Kenton

The Best of Stan Kenton Artist: Stan Kenton
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724383150427
EAN: 0724383150427
ASIN: B000005GZ1


Release Date: 1995-03-07

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Tracks:

  1. Artistry In Rhythm
  2. Eager Beaver
  3. Artistry Jumps
  4. Painted Rhythm
  5. Intermission Riff
  6. Collaboration
  7. Lover
  8. Unison Riff
  9. The Peanut Vendor
  10. Interlude
  11. Love For Sale
  12. Laura
  13. 23 Degrees North-82 Degrees West
  14. Invention For Guitar And Trumpet
  15. Stompin' At The Savoy
  16. La Suerte De Los Tontos (The Fortune Of Fools)
  17. Waltz Of The Prophets
  18. Malaguena

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Best of Stan Kenton.......2006-11-14

Excellent! It contains all of his major contributions. It is definetly a keeper. The man was a genius to say the least.

3 out of 5 stars I'm mystified.......2006-01-11

I figured that after almost 40 years listening to Jazz and Jazz-related music I should have at least a Best of Kenton...so I got it. And I don't get it. I mean, the playing is awesome. The brass players are giants. The fact that it doesn't really swing isn't a problem. I love Nelson Riddle, Bernard Herrmann...all kinds of Exotica. But is this Exotica? Jazz? Easy Listening? Labels don't matter, but this music seems like an only OK example of each thing that it hints at. For fans of low trombone writing this disc is way up there - faint praise, perhaps. But that's probably the main reason I'll keep it! Kenton fans, it's good you still have each other. But this has the distinction of being one of the least-played discs in my collection.

4 out of 5 stars These are not the best renditions Kenton is famous for..........2001-09-17

A PRETTY GOOD CD, however, most of the songs are from 1945 to 47, and the renditions are not as good as the Kenton works of
the 1950's, e.g., The Peanut Vendor, etc.

David

5 out of 5 stars Stan is still the man........2001-06-14

Kenton at his finest. Good music to listen to. Not for everybody,but he helped the Four Freshman get started ,and Maynard Furgeson played with him. What a sound. Buy it.

5 out of 5 stars An incredible array of artisty.......2001-02-23

I got into Stan Kenton in the strangest way. There is a radio show devoted to shortwave broadcasting called "DXing with Cumbre" hosted by Marie Lamb. I sent her an email about the opening and closing music for her show and that's when I discovered Stan. She used "Intermission Riff" which I fell in love with. The rest of the CD is a wonderful sonic trip through time and some of the tunes remind you of the stuff that Ricky Ricardo played on "I Love Lucy". My daughter calls it "Lucy Music"! Good stuff even if you are not a jazz fan.

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