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The Stage Door Swings in Bloomington, MN
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The Stage Door Swings in Bloomington, MN
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Stan Kenton
's orchestra was never the place to hear a nice tune played sweetly; arrangers including
Kenton
himself,
Pete Rugolo
,
Bob Graettinger
, and
Bill Holman
commonly emphasized the progressive end of
jazz
-- advanced harmonics, complex charts, powerful soloists -- much more than such a simple thing as
swing
. When
decided to record an album of
show tunes
in 1958, however, he proceeded directly to
Lennie Niehaus
.
Niehaus
, an altoist with the
band beginning nearly a decade earlier, had written a chart for
"Pennies from Heaven"
in 1953 that proved to be a highlight of the
Sketches on Standards
LP. (
would probably have chosen
Bill Russo
, who had helmed his two previous
standards
LPs of the '50s, but he had left the band a few years earlier.)
's band of 1958 didn't boast the firepower of earlier editions, but new arrivals
Jack Sheldon
and
Bill Trujillo
contribute a lot to the highlight,
"The Party's Over"
(which,
Michael Sparke
's liner notes tell us, was often used by the contrarian
to begin his sets). Elsewhere,
gives himself a feature on the hard-swinging
"Baubles, Bangles & Beads."
~ John Bush
's orchestra was never the place to hear a nice tune played sweetly; arrangers including
Kenton
himself,
Pete Rugolo
,
Bob Graettinger
, and
Bill Holman
commonly emphasized the progressive end of
jazz
-- advanced harmonics, complex charts, powerful soloists -- much more than such a simple thing as
swing
. When
decided to record an album of
show tunes
in 1958, however, he proceeded directly to
Lennie Niehaus
.
Niehaus
, an altoist with the
band beginning nearly a decade earlier, had written a chart for
"Pennies from Heaven"
in 1953 that proved to be a highlight of the
Sketches on Standards
LP. (
would probably have chosen
Bill Russo
, who had helmed his two previous
standards
LPs of the '50s, but he had left the band a few years earlier.)
's band of 1958 didn't boast the firepower of earlier editions, but new arrivals
Jack Sheldon
and
Bill Trujillo
contribute a lot to the highlight,
"The Party's Over"
(which,
Michael Sparke
's liner notes tell us, was often used by the contrarian
to begin his sets). Elsewhere,
gives himself a feature on the hard-swinging
"Baubles, Bangles & Beads."
~ John Bush
Stan Kenton
's orchestra was never the place to hear a nice tune played sweetly; arrangers including
Kenton
himself,
Pete Rugolo
,
Bob Graettinger
, and
Bill Holman
commonly emphasized the progressive end of
jazz
-- advanced harmonics, complex charts, powerful soloists -- much more than such a simple thing as
swing
. When
decided to record an album of
show tunes
in 1958, however, he proceeded directly to
Lennie Niehaus
.
Niehaus
, an altoist with the
band beginning nearly a decade earlier, had written a chart for
"Pennies from Heaven"
in 1953 that proved to be a highlight of the
Sketches on Standards
LP. (
would probably have chosen
Bill Russo
, who had helmed his two previous
standards
LPs of the '50s, but he had left the band a few years earlier.)
's band of 1958 didn't boast the firepower of earlier editions, but new arrivals
Jack Sheldon
and
Bill Trujillo
contribute a lot to the highlight,
"The Party's Over"
(which,
Michael Sparke
's liner notes tell us, was often used by the contrarian
to begin his sets). Elsewhere,
gives himself a feature on the hard-swinging
"Baubles, Bangles & Beads."
~ John Bush
's orchestra was never the place to hear a nice tune played sweetly; arrangers including
Kenton
himself,
Pete Rugolo
,
Bob Graettinger
, and
Bill Holman
commonly emphasized the progressive end of
jazz
-- advanced harmonics, complex charts, powerful soloists -- much more than such a simple thing as
swing
. When
decided to record an album of
show tunes
in 1958, however, he proceeded directly to
Lennie Niehaus
.
Niehaus
, an altoist with the
band beginning nearly a decade earlier, had written a chart for
"Pennies from Heaven"
in 1953 that proved to be a highlight of the
Sketches on Standards
LP. (
would probably have chosen
Bill Russo
, who had helmed his two previous
standards
LPs of the '50s, but he had left the band a few years earlier.)
's band of 1958 didn't boast the firepower of earlier editions, but new arrivals
Jack Sheldon
and
Bill Trujillo
contribute a lot to the highlight,
"The Party's Over"
(which,
Michael Sparke
's liner notes tell us, was often used by the contrarian
to begin his sets). Elsewhere,
gives himself a feature on the hard-swinging
"Baubles, Bangles & Beads."
~ John Bush
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