Last December, the late composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton would have turned 100. Centennial celebrations have been happening since then; Jazz at Lincoln Center plans a two-night ...

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The number of jazz-centered big bands “on the road" these days can be counted on the fingers of one hand with a digit or two to spare. The Glenn Miller and Count Basie orchestras remain randomly ...

For many fans of Stan Kenton, his New Concept of Artistry in Rhythm album (recorded in 1952) is their listening starting point. More intensive fans like to dip into his 1940s discography, which ...

With reference to Don Heckman’s article on the reasons for the demise of the big bands (“The Big Band Survival Kit,” June 16), reader Marty Capune (Letters, June 23) refers to two American Federation ...

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra pays its first visit to the Berkshires on Sunday. Jazz. It’s been described as America’s original art form. The baseball of music. Despite its origins in the South and ...

Marion “Buddy” Childers, who played lead trumpet in the big bands of such jazz luminaries as Stan Kenton and Tommy Dorsey and later led his own ensemble, died Thursday at his Woodland Hills home from ...

Marion "Buddy" Childers, trumpeter for jazz greats Stan Kenton and Tommy Dorsey who later led his own ensemble, died in his Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 81. Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton (December ...