Word: stan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stan is a fussbudget; either you do things right or you make no attempt is the way Stan sees the world. He rehearsed his band for ages before he took it public. And when he finally did, it blew the public's hat in the creek, which is to say the band cooked, dig? It was tight. And it is not a stretch to say Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra came on like a train, to liken them to the Chattanooga Choo Choo...
They are booked solid through next June: nightclubs, country clubs, banquets, benefit afternoon performances in a local park -- name it, they play it. "I wanted the Glenn Miller sound," Stan was saying one recent Sunday night at O'Shea's, where he plays every Sunday night, "and it turned out it was perfect for southwest Florida, for the age group here. The sentiment. The nostalgia. We played the elegant Quail Creek Country Club in Naples last night. When we opened, the people jumped up, and they didn't stop dancing from 8 till midnight." That said, Stan slid into...
...many. "It would be hard to make a living this way," said Corbin Wyant, the publisher-trombonist. "I don't think you could raise a family, plan retirement, those things. One of the best trombonists I've ever known now sells tools. It's really sad. He played with Stan Kenton." A moment later Wyant brought his own ax to bear on Kenton's wonderful Peanut Vendor...
...years making mellower music for the country-club set, suffering in the end the ignominy of accompanying himself with tapes "because I couldn't afford a band. Then I didn't sing at all for a couple months, and I, like, went crazy." When the invitation to sing with Stan came along last year, he leaped for it. "I've always liked this music. I knew I could do it." And indeed he can. Using arrangements that were surefire lady-killers 40 years ago, Lupi can work a room, provoking now and then the odd swoon. Should have heard...
...them in the microwave and then eat them in the bed. Beautiful. They taste just like they did in the street." Given the hour this musician eats, the fuel he takes in is a kind of restorative. With apologies to Count Basie, you could call it Stan's One O'Clock Jump...