Stan Kenton - Artistry Jumps

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:49
Size: 98.0 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. Artistry Jumps
[2:36] 2. Balboa Bash
[2:15] 3. Harlem Folk Dance
[2:41] 4. Tampico
[3:51] 5. End Of The World
[2:51] 6. Around The Town
[2:33] 7. Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
[4:28] 8. Capitol Punishment
[2:25] 9. Are You Livin' Old Man
[2:01] 10. Lover
[2:59] 11. Taboo
[3:04] 12. I 've Been Down In Texas
[2:53] 13. Painted Rhythm
[3:19] 14. Two Moose In A Caboose
[2:13] 15. Everybody Swing

Stan Kenton’s life might best be described as one long battle: to win over public acceptance in his struggle to elevate “popular” music by combining elements of jazz and classical sounds in to a new, artistic style of American music. “You’ve got to believe in something to achieve whatever goal you’re shooting for. My own ideas may be wrong, but I’m going to stick with them until they break me,” declared Kenton in 1943. At the same time, and from the opposite perspective, several classical composers like Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos, were incorporating elements of jazz into their music. “Artistry in Rhythm” was Kenton’s most radical example to date of his innovative conceptions to effect a combination of the two styles. When Kenton opened at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Beach, CA, for the summer season in 1941, he lacked the essential feature of an identifying song. Every band needed its own instantly recognizable signature tune, so rather than chose an already-known melody, Stan set to and composed a 45-second original piece which he called simply “Theme.”By July 1943, Kenton had expanded the work into the fully developed, semi-symphonic orchestration that he called “Production on Theme.” But when it was recorded at the band’s first Capitol session on November 19, 1943, Capitol executives balked at the highbrow title, and persuaded Kenton it was better named after the orchestra’s slogan—“Artistry in Rhythm.” “And, of course,” commented Stan, “It’s stuck ever since.”

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