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...taste in jazz bands had changed a bit, if only slightly: up into first place, nosing out last year's favorite, Woody Herman, went Progressive Jazzman Stan Kenton. For the second time in Down Beat, blind British Pianist George Shearing and his Quintet won the "best instrumental combo" title. For the ninth time, Spike Jones was elected "King of Corn." Runner-up: Guy Lombardo...
...Stan Kenton Presents (Capitol; 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). A collection of Progressive Musicman Kenton's "sound concoctions" (TIME, Feb. 13), some more noisy and pretentious than others...
Earnest, ever-posing Stan Kenton was set to take his turmoil on a tour of 77 U.S. and Canadian cities, beginning this week...
...frenetic mob, mostly teenagers, that overflowed Los Angeles' 2,670-seat Philharmonic Auditorium to hear him, Bandman Kenton nervously explained what he was up to; he wanted listeners to write their confidential reactions to his "innovations in modern music for 1950" on the cards that had been handed out. But, he warned, "If you start looking for melody, you won't find any . . . We get a"great thing out of concocting sound." He went on rapidly to add: "It's sound concoction." With that he whirled around to let them have...
...first belt of sound from the brasses pinned them to their chairs. Lanky Stan Kenton flapped his arms like a scarecrow in a hurricane as the 38-piece band blasted out a "montage" of the jazzed-up dissonances that Kentonites have slavered over since 1941: Artistry in Percussion, Opus in Pastels, Artistry Jumps. Every once in a while he gave them a breather: blonde June Christy came onstage and cooed Get Happy, Lonesome Road and I'll Remember April. Most of the time it was a bewildering battle between the violins, violas and cellos on one side...