Stan Kenton - Intermission Riff (6)
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- Stan Kenton and his Orchestra recorded in London 6 February 1972.
Stan Kenton, Mike Vax, Dennis Noday, Jay Saunders, Ray Brown, Joe Marcinkiewicz, Dick Shearer, Mike Jamieson, Fred Carter, Mike Wallace, Phil Herring, Quin Davis, Richard Torres, Kim Frizell, Willie Maiden, Chuck Carter, Ramon Lopez, John Worster, John Von Ohlen.
Just read many of the comments. What a fun time it was playing on this band!!! Stan was back from his first major illness and loving being back on the road. The audiences all over Europe and England were fantastic. To answer a couple of questions. Yes - that's me. And yes - the sound guy seemed to be asleep at the wheel a few times during the concert, but over all the sound is pretty good and the video is great. What a treat seeing all those old friends. Sadly, many of them are gone now: Stan Willie Maiiden, Quinn Davis, Chuck Carter, Ramon Lopez, Dick Shearer, and Fred Carter.
Mike Vax No doubt! I know many of us are loving it so may years later...even though we are just fans, don't know the people...appreciate the skills and talent, even today...sounds so good!
Mike Vax
Thank you Mr Vax
+Mike Vax This is one of my all time favorite video's A great band hitting on all cylinders. Great version of the song. You can really feel the energy and the guys playing it look like they are having a great time and really into it. I played trombone (on a much much lower level) but listening to this brings back a lot of great memories for me. Thanks for the great music, Mike.
Sweet to read this from you, Mike. What a band! None other quite like it...thank heaven for records to enjoy Stan and all these artists forevermore!!
😊😊Jan
Mike Vax!!!
Kenton pushed the envelope and realize this people.
this tune is still ahead of time years later!!!!
Monster Band!!!! What a trombone section!!
STAN KENTON WILL ALWAYS "HOVER" OVER THE JAZZ WORLD FOR EVER AND EVER ...AMEN!!!
The Trumpeteer at the end was my father Patrick Dennis Hlavaty. He was an incredibly talented guy and he was born on this day March, 17th 1941. He hit the high notes in life as much as he did here in this video. I miss you Dad. I'll be with you one day soon.
What a great complement to your dad.
An incredible band, composed of great musicians. One of my favorite things about this video is that they are having a GREAT TIME!
1957 and I'm in the Navy stationed within an hour of NJ's Seaside Heights. Already a jazz fan in general & Kenton in particular, I hung out in a bar on the boardwalk on summer Sunday afternoons because they had a small jazz group. When ever they took a break they started playing this and it took me back to earlier years. I think of that every time I hear or play it. Great memories for 60 years!!
Stan the man.
I bought my first Kenton record at age 14, now
I’m 85 they are still the best to me.
I was privileged to see Stan Kenton in Glasgow Scotland. It was a wonderful experience that I hold dear though I am 83 I still play his cd's loud when no one is home.
My first jazz hero back in the early 50's. A few years later walked into a bar on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ and a small group was playing some jazz. When they took a break this is what they played. Good memories all around.
I was the same age as you (Gordon Vincent) when I first fell in love with Stan Kenton. Heard him play in person and have his autograph! I'm now 88. Still love that music and that man.
Not only a wonderful musician and artist, but an enduring inspiration to anyone who aspires to even listen to jazz, let alone play it.A Deity in sound ....................
Hi there,I agree, first heard him in 1950 on 78 rpm discs am now 75 with 36 Cd's plus numerous LP's which includes the one of the clip of Intermission Riff. Wish I could get DVD. The greatest band ever a lot people wouldn't agree thou.Hope they keep finding new material.
I was and still am a huge Kenton fan. I played trumpet. My greatest-ever trumpet ambition would have been to play lead with Stan. I loved all the big bands but would always put Stan first. How greatly missed such great music is.
No one like Maynard Ferguson
The tune that turned me on to jazz, 40 years ago.
Nothing beats the dynamic sounds of the jazz big band, Stan proves that here.
29 years ago today - Stan passed. What a great way to remember him with this chart. One of my favorites of all time.
Discovered the Kenton sound in the mid-Fifties, and it still thrills.
Fantastic!
I love this and I can't watch it enough. However every time I do I can't stop the tears; Oh lordy how I miss Stan Kenton!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!
Best band ever.
As a bass trombonist who played in a regional ballroom band for roughly a quarter of century, I've lost count of how many times I've played this chart. But I never tired of it. It's an invigorating song, and lifted my spirits everytime. My favorite Kenton chart.
Marvelous Stan Kenton
I was a keyboardist back in the day, and attended two of Stan's music camps at the University of Redlands, CA., summers of '70 and '71. I met Stan both times, he gave me some pointers, and posed with me for photos which he also autographed. He and his band performed for all of us. They about blew us through the rear wall! He was a firm supporter of young talent ... and I was saddened when I learned of his passing. What a great musician. R.I.P.
Stan Kenton has been gone 30 years now but his music remains with us. I loved his bag band sound.
Fantastic listening
Every time I hear this version from his London appearance I get that fiery thrill right down to my feet - which have a mind of their own.
What a darling comment, John !!! 😊
Thanks Jan. I hope you are hooked too.
+John Perks
Oh, John! You have no idea!! I have a terrific 2-record (vinyl) with tons of his stuff. Among my favorites: Body and Soul (with Maynard Ferguson), Opus in Pastels, It Might As Well Be Spring. But I've never been sure of which I love best: Concerto To End All Concertos or Intermission Riff. I have other albums (all vinyl and bought in the '60s early '70s, including his Here's That Rainy Day live from Redlands which I saw him open his show with at Dante's and am crazy about!
Are you familiar with the Los Angeles area ? I am in a suburb (born downtown in the California Hospital). We have a fair number of jazz venues here. But all my favorite musicians are gone. :( Do you know our dear Chuck Niles?
So nice to hear back from you, John!
Jan :)
Id, Ido!!. I 've lived and breathed Kenton's jazz for a million years. ALL jazz (except old-time early stuff). The West Coast sounds are a part of my soul. I could nama names and tracks by the zillion, but let's just say we are soul-mates.
+John Perks
Do I understand correctly that you are familiar with the "and, like that" funny, witty, oh-so-hip and adorable Chuck (Niles)? The man was loved! I could be driving home from a crummy day at work and he would have me laughing within ten minutes! He is so very missed.
Stan Kenton was a huge favorite of mine in the 40's...I saw his orchestra in person at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles...What a fantastic big band sound...ahead of his time...His many versions of Artistry in Rhythm...Bolero,etc.
Great Kenton Track !! Very Typical !! Love It !!!!
I‘ll never forget when my Dad played Artistry in Rhythm, I was 4. Game changer at 4.
This is THE BEST!! It proves that music is an art. One that gives us and puts such a powerful enjoyment into our lives. Stan's offerings enriches the musical experience. Stan IS THE MAN!!
My cousin Nev Roberts, Halle Orchestra bass trombonist and brilliant teacher, always told his brass ensemble students at Manchester and Leeds that if they learned Stan Kenton arrangements they would get a job in any symphony orchestra.
with out a doubt - - - agreat tune- - and what a band
Absolute jazz animalisticity unleashed at 2:48!
What chops!
+nemo227
So true!! They're thrilling to hear! The first time I finally saw Stan Kenton (Dante's) I shook hearing gorgeous arrangement of Here's That Rainy Day!!! They rose to a knockout pitch and ended as only Stan Kenton did: coooool...gorgeous!!!
Sandoval avant la lettre. 😁
hey, Nobody kicked ass like kenton did!!
I grew up listening to his albums in particularly the live albums of the early 70's.
He brought the heat like nobody's business.
Look at this guy tearing it up on trumpet!!! wew!!!
I can still remember back in the 40s when I first heard this tune on a juke box. I was hooked. What a great piece.
Stan Kenton leads off on piano, he’s joined by the rhythm section, then the trombone section joins in, then there are the saxophones and trumpets, and we are all in musical heaven. Kids, this is real music.
Possibly the best big band music ever with the four brothers and five others!!
That trumpeter has the most outragoeus stance!!!!
Awesome Bass trombone line.
I remember be awakened to this on Sunday mornings! Love it! Brings back so many memories of my Dad!
great tune, I remember my dad playing this on a sunday morning when I was young, I suddenly understood why people love jazz, Ive loved the feel and sound of kenton and his orchestra ever since
Huge melodic dynamic sounds and pounding rhythmic impact, the Kenton big band cannot be beaten👍👏👏🤗❤️
This is one of my all time favorite video's A great band hitting on all
cylinders. Great version of the song. You can really feel the energy
and the guys playing it look like they are having a great time and
really into it. I played trombone (on a much much lower level) but
listening to this brings back a lot of great memories for me. Thanks
for the great music Stan and thanks, Mike too. Appreciated your comments below.
These guys really know how to wake you up!!!!! The Brass an Saxes Take you right up into the sky's!! The Best Sounds anywhere!
I'm 49 and used to play trombone in a swing band back in the late '80's and just discovered this song searching Amazon mp3's.
It's got to be one of the best cruisin' songs ever pinned. Love Kenton's Opus In Chartreuse. I'm surprised there isn't a better RUclips recording posted. I found the best sounding version on his album "Live in Las Vegas At The Tropicana".
It opens with a kick-ass sounding bass trombone James Bond theme styled "Bop-Bop" lick much different from the bari-sax versions.
hey man this is off the wall!!! I grew listening to kenton as a child and teenager!!!
Im 56 weeeeew i have all of my fathers albums of kenton!! holy bejoly!!! right on~!!
I saw this band on this tour, in Rockford Illinois in 1971 or 72.
Happy Birthday, Dad.
Just superb!
The best recording of Intermission Riff I've ever heard. 16yrs later after the 1956 recording.
Heard the tune first back in the latter 1950s (never really heard/remember the 1946 version).
Kenton and company at their best, and this is my all-time favorite by them. Bravo, gentlemen!
That trombone section is just too much!! I went to a Kenton concert in my teens - unfortunately not aware of what I was listenting to. Now, 50 years later, am catching up
Did you miss out on the best of Jungle Music.
Never too late!
The alto sax solo sounds more like a tenor at times. I didn’t know an alto could get such low tones. Fabulous range!!!
Back in 1960 I went to a Stan Kenton concert playing in the band shell at Balboa Park, San Diego. It was terrific and after the performance I ran up onto the stage for his autograph. He was very nice and very tall. About 6' 5" I'd say.
Appears to me Stan got some wonderful musicians around him on this gig.
Jazz makes me feel good inside when I listen.
Soulmending music.
I wish I could have been in London that entire month
Espectacular
All these recordings.... and this one in particular.... are AMAZING!
Gotta love Kenton.
My Favorite Kenton tune also. Everyone kicks.............
What great footage! I was fortunate enough to see Stan and his band about ten times from 1975 to 1978. This brings back a lot of memories.
Pretty much my favourite version of this old chestnut. Thought it was goin to be messy at first but then the bones started. Nuff said, I can forgive Stan anything when the trombones get going.Swings like hell too for a live recording.
+nemo227
Bill Watrous!
+nemo227
Thank you!
You must be a bassist, going by the graphic with your name. I love Luther Hayes and LOVE John Clayton -- Eddie Gomez and, of course, the great Ray Brown! Too many great ones to have a favorite.
😊 Jan
+nemo227
As much as I love those blasting horns I really love piano. Do you play the great standards (I LOVE!) or more progressive avant-gard (sp ?? !) pieces? I include in the "standards" Broadway musical songs. Love Allen Broadbent, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Pete Jolly, Marian McPartland..
there's no end to the list! Anita O'Day so, so great, incomparable!!
I've noticed your comments here, Nemo227, and appreciate how knowledgeable you are.
Don't know why the great, great David Raksin just came into my head...what a maestro!!
I sure enjoyed hearing about your bass! 😉😉 Jan !
great alto solo. love the bari sax. the power of this orchestra could raise the hair on your neck
I have the original recording on a 78, it was my dad's...just as great now as it was when it was first recorded, love this chart
My absolute favorite Kenton number. Thanks to my mom and her twin my aunt for introducing me to the great and unique sound of the big band original, Stan Kenton.
es la mejor canción de Mr. Kenton y hay que escucharla cantada es sensacional.
Exelente orquesta y arreglo del maestro STAN KENTON, y muy buena interpretación de el y todos sus músicos mis felicitaciones al maestro donde quiera que se encuentre
This is THRILLING!
I'm smiling and laughing as I listen!! Reminds me of how thrilled I was to finally see Stan Kenton (at Dante's). For those who are not familiar, Dante's was a tiny, intimate room. Several years later when I saw him at Concerts By The Sea, we sat close enough to put my drink on his piano. (That's when he played my request, and said, "You have a beautiful face." To this day, I'm convinced the remark was his response to my reaction and appreciation of the lose-your-mind and too, too much music!! xxx!!!!
jan wintz
The first time I saw Kenton's Band was 1955 at St. Louis' Club Imperial. Standing room only ...blew the roof off of the place. Kenton's band was the best ever.
Stan Kenton, really has those Trombones, running right up through the sky with those good sounds of music, he has this ability to mold the Brass sections in a manner of addictiveness that makes you want more of the Good Stuff! I played Trombone, and it just makes you feel good!!
This is one of the most powerful and stirring peices of jazz ever recorded. It's like the driving force of the human race.
Thank you Bazmo2401..since I discovered these videos I have had the pleasure of enjoying them almost every evening! What a treat!
Mike, this a real treat! Talk about an allstar lineup! Wow, wow, WOW!!! SMOKEN HOT!🎼🎵🎺🎺🎺♥️♥️ nice lead work....
I lived with this one for years, have it on CD now: of all the exciting, rip-it things he has recorded, this is the top, sweat breaks out...
Charles
A true musical genius.
i love when jazz sounds actually like music...Stan the man....figured it out...why has no-one followed? 2014?!?
nemo227 Yeah the trumpets on this one are insane, but that was the 70's sound, trumpets ruled then...but my bigger question is where are the big bands/stage bands...it was a big deal in the 70's, seems to have dropped off the landscape...? Maybe I am just out of touch, getting old, sigh...
nemo227 Well I'm so jealous, hearing those guys, or Buddy Rich, or Woody Herman, or Thad Jones...I hear you about seeing the band live. Hearing legends in person is so inspiring...I saw Harry James at Disneyland.... I was 13, he was, I am guessing 70, it was free, hardly anybody there. My dad said he was famous...I had taken up trumpet that year in grade 9, so I go to the library when I get back home, he's a legend...I decided then and there i want to be a trumpet player...(which i am not, but would never trade my want to be for anything)
Graham Livingstone Have you heard the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra? (Actually until recently it was called the Stan Kenton Alumni Band.) We are carrying on the tradition! You can find us on Utube as well. Also might be listed from many years ago as the Mike Vax Big Band featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. We also have quite a few CD's out. You can get them at www.bigbandjazz.net
Mike Vax I am now an 80-year-old woman, but, oh, how this takes me back to attending Friday night Youth Club. Thanks, Max.
Most jazz sounds like music, c'mon now.
by '72 those tremendous bands of Kenton's were a thing of the past but this is quite admirable
Kick ass chart! One of the alltime greats pieces of big band music!!!
I was so privileged to hang out with all these guys when I was 18 attending his annual summer jazz camp this same year 1972. Except the drummer was a young Peter Erskine! I was so impressed with the sound Joe Torres got from his tenor sax. And OMGosh, my theory class was taught by the brilliant Hank Levy.
GREAT MUSIC COMPOSER DIRECTOR AND GENTLEMAN!!!
a kick ass chart one of the all time great big bands One of kentons best bands by far.
Trombone section is killa!!!
The coolest cat ever man
Still drives me crazy after all these years.
Stan had Monsters for his band!! It was soul-reviving to be at a live performane.
Desde que ouvi essa música pela primeira vez, passei a admirar muito o grande talento de Stan Kenton, os músicos excepcionais que tocaram com ele e também as várias formações da Orquestra , com o passar do tempo. Considero Stan Kenton um grande inovador, um visionário da música. 28.5.2022.
i heard stan and the band a number of times in the 60's.....most of the jazz magazine didn't
brag on him too much....but the colleges and trained college musicians loved that band....now
basie and ellington were great too; but come on stan was years ahead of his and our time.
where are the innovators today?????
What a smokin band!!
Love it, bust wish it had the Dick Shearer solo!
OOPS! Ment to give a thumbs up for this reply!
I first saw Kenton in Bournemouth, South England, They had Mel Lewis on drums. Unbelievable.
That would have been 1964 ? Winter Gardens, Saw first house and in the interval went out front and bought tickets for the second. I seem to remember it was the first Mellophonium band.
First time I saw the band was Portsmouth Savoy Ballroom 1956.
Saw this same band in Glasgow when they toured the UK. I believe Lloyd Spoon was in the bone section. Enjoyed a beverage with him. One of Stan’s last road bands unfortunately. Amazing power and some fine soloists. He lived to tour!!
Thanks for posting!
I have different places in my heart for all of Stan's "albums"!(records, cd's, lp's, mp3's... whatever) Also, I don't think I've ever met A Kenton song I din't like. Some of them take a lot of dedicated analysisssess. But I always come out singing, to myself, days later! Years later! And now, decades later!
It's the music that haunts my head! And I love it!!!
Stan the Man lives on...!
I saw Mike Vax about a month ago with the Harry James band; he's still playing great and a real joy to be around. Thanks for posting this!
Ron Mills, Piano
Glenn Miller Orch.
This tune is brilliant just in the simplicity of it's structure. One of my most favorite pieces of all times for this medium. A *very rare* look at the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Thank you so much for this posting!
Superb!!!
Leslie Weddell RECADO
Luis Moscoso Mejía LUCHO MEJÍA
AAHHHHHHHHHHhh waking from being blown away!! AMAZING!!
intermission riff is kick ass
Not a patch on the original! Cacophony, dissonance, shrieking, bawling, howling assault on the ears and that's just the trumpets. Stan Kenton was renowned for innovation and imagination. This caterwauling is a far cry from the raw stridency of Peanut Vendor. Come back Pete Rugello.
A power great and a real human being. Saw,enjoyed, and heard him and several of his different membered bands at the old Baltimore Colliseum(early '50's),Famous Ballroom and outside on the athletic field at the Towson State University ('70's) where the great Hank Levy and Kenton collaborated in their weekly -Jazz Clinics. He surely is missed.