Word: mellophonium
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...these days is rarer. This band is one of the best Kenton ever put together. The instrumentation is unique even for one of popular music's most tireless experimenters: no strings, generous contingents of trumpets, trombones, saxes, and an instrument of Kenton's own invention -the mellophonium, midway between trumpet and trombone. The result is as smooth as butter, whipped by Kenton's artfully lagging beat and caressing tone in ballads like Moonlight in Vermont...
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