Word: kenton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Herman herd" came to a stop just one year after it won the 1945 band-of-the-year poll by the jazz magazine Metronome. Last week Metronome counted up its 1946 votes and awarded its prize to a band still new to the big time: Stan Kenton's. He finished far ahead of Duke Ellington...
...Stan Kenton is a toothy, tall (6 ft. 4½ in.) piano player who likes to talk about the "sincere sounds" his band makes. He had found that there were still plenty of jobs for young bands which were not fussy about one-night stands and didn't charge too much...
...More Eggs. Kenton organized his band five years ago in Hollywood, and rode along in the brassy wakes of Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton. Said he: "We created a lot of nervous energy but it wasn't what people felt. I decided to change our style...
...Last spring, in a nationwide poll of collegians by Billboard magazine, be placed third to Stan Kenton and Tex Beneke among best "new" orchestras...
Anne Mary Kilmer, four-year-old granddaughter of Soldier-Poet Joyce (Trees), daughter of Kenton, Washington librarian, managed to crack a bottle of champagne across the bow of the Liberty ship Joyce Kilmer in Baltimore...