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Arrested were Charles (Chuck) Dederich, 67, founder of the Synanon Foundation, and two of his "Imperial Marines," Lance Kenton, 22 (son of Bandleader Stan Kenton), and Joseph Musico, 30. Three weeks before the snake attack, Morantz had won a $300,000 judgment against the controversial drug rehabilitation organization on behalf of a married couple who claimed the wife had been held captive by Synanon members...
...Kenton and Musico, who still face up to two years in jail, must undergo psychiatric tests before the judge decides whether to place them on probation. Morantz, who sat in the front row of the courtroom as the deal was announced, declared himself satisfied. "I'm very happy," he said. "To have them stand up in court and admit-they're guilty gives me an enormous amount of satisfaction...
...anything, instead of deteriorating over the years, Pepper's style has expanded and deepened. He has always something, an original; but in the late 1940s and early '50s, when his recordings with Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers and other West Coast jazzmen first brought him to prominence, his sound combined traces of Lester Young's cool obliqueness with Charlie Parker's harmonic and rhythmic complexities. Later he took on a darker, sometimes harsher quality as he came under the influence of John Coltrane's stabbing, honking outcries and modal sheets of sound. Last week...
...unloving grandmother. He found an outlet in the clarinet at nine and switched to the saxophone at twelve. He proved such a natural that he was soon jamming around town with musicians like Zoot Sims and Dexter Gordon. At 17 he was married and playing lead alto with Stan Kenton...
DIED. Stan Kenton, 67, patriarch of progressive jazz; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When Kenton crashed onto the West Coast jazz scene in 1941, his fortissimo "walls of brass" sound struck some critics as "sheer noise," but his popularity endured long after the demise of swing. He helped introduce Afro-Cuban rhythms to U.S. pop, invented the mellophonium, a trumpet-French horn hybrid, and wed classical music with jazz both in his own dissonant compositions (Artistry in Rhythm) and in unorthodox interpretations of Wagner and Ravel...