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...year ago last December, "progressive" Jazzman Stan Kenton decided to quit. His band was making almost as much money as it was noise, but Stan, who regarded himself as strictly a concert man, didn't like some of-the places he had to play, especially the dance halls. And he wasn't sure, he added, that he was "contributing." He toyed with the idea that he might contribute more by becoming a psychiatrist. "I guess I talked up a storm about the thing," he says. "Everybody thought that was going to be the next move." But it would...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...
...composers (like Harvard's Walter Piston) have taken pride in being told that their music was "stravinskyesque." Aaron Copland, best of native U.S. composers, believes that Stravinsky's continuing hold on composers "is without parallel since Wagner's day." Even Bebopper Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, daddy of "progressive jazz," who think they have invented a new kind of music, concede generously that Stravinsky "uses some of the same sounds and rhythmical devices." The fact is that Stravinsky and jazz have learned from each other...
...Louie [Armstrong] might exclaim, I "jumped salty" when I read that one. Mr. Stan Kenton has more gall than the Hollywood hams...
Nothing small about Mr. Kenton though. ... He harangued the one man who would stir this writer's emotions, and (I hope) a few others who detest Boy Scout Brass and the rest of this cacophony they euphemistically term "music...