It was always a major goal of Stan Kenton's to lead a concert jazz orchestra as opposed to a swinging dance band. He wanted to perform for audiences that sat [more]
It was always a major goal of Stan Kenton's to lead a concert jazz orchestra as opposed to a swinging dance band. He wanted to perform for audiences that sat [more]
If you are looking for a comprehensive big-band hit list chock full of essentials, here it is...'nuff said. You get evergreens like Glenn Miller's "Pennsylvania 6-5000" [more]
Tampico is easily recommended to June Christy fans. The singer is featured with the Stan Kenton Orchestra on a variety of radio broadcasts from 1945 plus a four-song V-disc session, [more]
While many radio broadcasts from the big-band era are redundant exercises in nostalgia, this one -- a compilation from three different locales -- is defiantly, pungently [more]
The Proper label continues its stellar jazz box-set series with this mammoth four-disc survey of drummers from early jazz to [more]