Stan Kenton - Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton Audio CD

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton songs In August 2001, Terry Gibbs was digging around in one of the closets of his Los Angeles home when came across about 25 boxes of old reel-to-reel tapes. As it turned out, some of those tapes contained previously unreleased Dream Band recordings of 1959 gigs in Hollywood. So Gibbs contacted Fantasy about the possibility of putting out some of ...

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton music CDs This excellent twofer brings together a pair of albums Lou Rawls recorded for Capitol in the early 1960s. Both sessions feature Rawls with a hard-swinging big band and flanked by a three-strong saxophone section and the soul-jazz organist Richard "Groove" Holmes. The results, as one might expect, are both raucous and smoky. And while Rawls wouldn't hit his stride ...

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton CD music As was true of many records from the early 1960's, the emphasis on this out-of-print Lp (especially in the lengthy liner notes) is on the stereophonic sound rather than the music.Rogers (sticking to flugelhorn) leads a group that includes three reeds, trombonist Ken Shroyer, vibraphonist Emil Richards, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Red Mitchell or Joe Mondragon on bass and ...

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton songs Recorded in 1965, this often out-of-print live set features bebop innovator and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, his frequent 1960's sideman James Moody (one of the greatest mainstream tenor saxophonists ever), and arranger Gil Fuller successfully collaborating in a big band context. The program is standards, pop hits of the day ("Sweets For My Sweet"), bop chestnuts ("Tin Tin Deo"), and ...

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton music CDs Along with Gil Evans, Lennie Niehaus, and George Russell, Manny Albam is considered to be one of the more important large ensemble jazz arrangers of the late-50s and early-60s. He made very few albums under his own name, which makes this 1957 outing all that more vital. The 19-piece band features the likes of Phil Woods, Al Cohn, and ...

Back To Balboa / Rendezvous With Kenton album This CD features the inimitable Stan Kenton Orchestra 'live' at Humboldt State College in Arcata California in 1959. The fifties were a halcyon period for the Kenton band and this CD features many of his finest musicians including Lennie Niehaus, Richie Recording information: Humboldt State College, Arcata, CA (02/25/1959). Personnel: Lennie Niehaus (alto saxophone); Bill Trujillo, John Bonnie (tenor saxophone); Billy Root, ...