Kenton Showcase

Kenton Showcase Artist: Stan Kenton
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724352524426
EAN: 0724352524426
ASIN: B00004T2RJ


Release Date: 2000-06-06

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Tracks:

  1. A Theme Of Four Values
  2. A Study For Bass
  3. Blues Before And After
  4. Bacante
  5. Thisbe
  6. Egdon Heath
  7. Sweets
  8. Dusk
  9. Bags
  10. Hav-A-Havana
  11. Solo For Buddy
  12. The Opener
  13. Fearless Finlay
  14. Theme And Variations
  15. Kingfish
  16. In Lighter Vein
  17. Of All Things
  18. Lover Man
  19. My Funny Valentine
  20. Bags (Alternate Version)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A study in contrasts.......2004-04-01

It's great to have this album on remastered CD., The sound is terrific. I wore out my first copy of this album 50 years ago as a teenager. Kenton got my classically trained ear into jazz and this album was a big part of it. Bill Russo wrote the kind of thing Kenton was really after, I believe, but Bill Holman's arrangements swing and show his genius too. These two composers are really a contrast in approaches to jazz. The liner notes say how the band members weren't too crazy about Russo's approach, but you can't deny the beauty of Russo's work even now, so many years later. Both men are giants and a giant gave them this opportunity to show their work. It's an album worth having.

5 out of 5 stars The Essence of Stan Kenton.......2000-08-17

This orchestra tried everything musically over the four decades we had to hear it live. You loved it--truly loved it--or you hated it.No in between. But for those of us who truly loved Stan and his music, the energy and art of Showcase is in our blood.It's a collection of brilliant scores by two of the world's richest and diverse writers. Bill Holman the swinger and Bill Russo the scluptor. The arrangements are performed by maybe the best musicians Kenton had ever assembled. If you own one Kenton album, it should be this one.

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