Word: kenton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express my indignation at the severe injustice you have done Stan Kenton [TIME, March 1]. The despairingly stagnant condition of popular American music has been in existence far too long, and I believe that, whether he is right or wrong in his efforts, Mr. Kenton should be commended for his one-man crusade to alleviate this deplorable condition...
...Progressive" jazzman Stan Kenton, accompanied by songstress June Christy, will expound his views on the future of jazz as an American art form tonight at 11 o'clock on WHRV. Kenton copped the current "Downbeat" and Metronome" awards as the best band of the year...
This week Kenton moved into Chicago's Civic Opera House for a one-night stand; the 4,200 seats and standing room had been sold out for two weeks, and 3,000 ticket-buyers had been turned away. (It was no trouble at all to get seats in advance for the Metropolitan Opera's famed Ezio Pinza that afternoon...
...Kenton is a 6 ft. 4½ in. Californian who at 36 has the same ambition Paul Whiteman had in the '20s: to marry classical music and jazz. In Whiteman's case, what emerged was pseudo-symphonic-a blend of Tin Pan Alley and Tchaikovsky. In Kenton's, it is a driving, nervous (and technically skillful) wedding of swing and Schonberg. Kenton started his outfit in 1941, got ahead fast by getting up early to sign autographs, and looking up disc jockeys whenever he hit a new town. For the past two years, his musicians have been...
...Stan Kenton considers his "progressive jazz" just what the psychiatrist ordered. Last month, he sat down with a Down Beat reporter (Harvardman Mike Levin), gave him a 62-column interview that sounded sometimes like a seminar in psychology, sometimes like a talk with Father Divine. Said Kenton: ". . . The human race today may be going through . . . nervous frustration and thwarted emotional development which traditional music is entirely incapable of not only satisfying, but representing...