Stan Kenton And His Orchestra Live At Redlands University

 

Artistry In Rhythm

The Creative World Of Stan Kenton And His Orchestra Live At Redlands University

Recorded October, 1970 at Redlands University, Redlands, California

Recorded on location by Wally Heider

Mixed and Edited by Andy Richardson

Mixing Supervision by Gene Guesvold

Mastering by Western Recorders

Liner Notes by Doug Neal

Creative World ST 1015

1970

Personel:

Saxophones: Quin Davis, Richard Torres, Norm Smith, Willie Maiden, Jim Timlin

Trumpets: Mike Vax, Joe Ellis, Jim Kartchner, Dennis Noddy, Warren Gale

Trombones: Dick Shearer, Mike Jamienson, Fred Carter, Tom Bridges, Graham Ellis

Bass: Gary Todd

Drums: Baron John Von Ohlen

Latin Percussion: Efrain Logreira

Piano: Stan Kenton

From the inside cover: This two-record album was recorded live at a special concert at Redlands University under the most unique circumstances. Unique because the audience consisted of student musicians, music educators, and the teaching staff which had gathered for this year's week of "Kenton Clinics."

Because of its deep involvement with the study of jazz, the audience proved to be not only sensitively perceptive to the music played, but very critical of now it was performed by the Kenton Orchestra. This challenge, from students to professional musician, fanned itself to burning excitement as the band outdid itself to provide total communication with this select audience.

Many of the selections were recorded at the request of the many Kenton fans who had heard them played at concerts while the band was on tour. Four have never been recorded by anyone as they were written especially for the Kenton Orchestra. The recordings on this concert album are vivid, exciting testimony to the total communication which took place at Redlands University between music students, educators and the Stan Kenton Orchestra, which firmly established itself as their "Jazz Orchestra in Residence."

The "Jazz Orchestra in Residence" concept evolved from the many fruitful and informative years of the "Kenton Clinics." This new idea places the full Kenton Orchestra in a college or university for three days to a week, where they work in conjunction with the music and humanities department as a closely related and integrated extension of both. By exposing students to the professional standards of actual performing demonstrations, the band creates exciting examples that establish goals for the young musicians to pursue.

The "Jazz Orchestra in Residence" program is composed of highly intense sessions which cover all pertinent aspects of jazz in order to provide the student with a further well-rounded, all encompassing knowledge of music. Courses include Jazz Improvisation, Composition and Arranging, and instrumental Clinics, in which the solutions to problems most often encountered with the various instruments are discussed and examined. Two of the many related lectures include "Jazz and the Humanities: and "Jazz, the Extension to the Formal Study of Music."

As an adjunct, Kenton has produced two color films on jazz: "The Substance of Jazz," which describes how and why jazz is so different from all other music forms, and "The Crusade for Jazz," a one-hour documentary which takes the viewer on an intimate road trip by bus with the band, where they are confronted with the discomfort of living out of a suitcase for three months, the one night stands, and eating on the run; but, most of all, the viewer feels all of the excitement generated by each member of the band just before curtain times, and the deep sense of personal involvement each one has with the band and the music they love to play anywhere: jazz.

During the "Jazz Orchestra in Residence," the musicians carefully nurture each student's particular problem until finally, at week's end, a new awareness has taken place within these youngsters; an awareness that has them reaching notes they couldn't have imagined earlier, playing complex arrangements and even writing an original score for the Kenton band to play and comment on. Most important, they have developed a sensitive understanding, not just for music and their own ability, but for the innovative and deeply personal excitement of jazz.

The pictures point out the intense interest and seriousness of the students. Their enthusiasm became so boundless that even while eating, the discussion was jazz and their own expanding musical horizons. The "Creative World of Stan Kenton" has been closely associated with university music education for many years by furnishing professional orchestrations for the student musician. The "Jazz Orchestra in Residence" concept now provides the serious student the opportunity of working with the professional musician who plays this intricate scores in front of thousands of jazz fans in concert halls and night clubs throughout the country.

This concept is proving so successful that the Kenton Orchestra is making plans to expand these three day to a week appearances during their normal concert tour as extensions to the regular music department curricula.

From Billboard - December 19, 1970: Now on his own Creative World label, this has the clinical sounds of big Kenton orchestra recorded at one of Kenton's seminars fo students, in this case Redlands. All the facets of Kenton's style are there – the bows to European classicism, blasts of high energetic sound and technically superb soloist. The material veers from Jimmy Webb tunes to Kentionia "Peanut Vendor," "Artistry In Rhythm."

Here's That Rainy Dany 

A Little Minor Booze

Tico Tico

Didn't We?

Chiapas

MacArthur Park

More Peanut Vendor

Bon Homme Richard

Tiare

Terry Talk

Granada

Artistry In Rhythm