Although I'm 84 the opening bars of Malaguena still make the hairs on my arms stand on end. My girlfriend (now my wife of 65 years) and I were fortunate to hear Kenton's band a couple times in the late 50s when attending the University of Nebraska. Once was in a concert setting and the other in a dancehall located a few miles south of Lincoln - where there most of the couples just stood and listened to the talented musicians. My wife's blond hair is now a lovely silver and I still believe that the 'wall of sound', as coined by someone else, is far superior and more original than a majority of the music being presented today. RIP Stan Kenton for the musical genius that you and your band gave to the world.
Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps basically did this version in 88, fairly close to as written. Look it up on here. They make those old G bugles wail!
My father was personally asked to sit in with Stan's band on trumpet in Columbus, Ohio shortly after this period when the lead trumpet was sick. He was brilliant. He died very suddenly when I was 10 in 1977 at age 47. I'm still haunted by his gorgeous playing that filled our house. Oh, and this drummer was incredible!!!!!!
Your dear father was very talented to be asked too sit in on short notice by Mr Kenton!!!! Bless your dear father's heart!!! Thank you for sharing!!! 👍👌🙂💙🙏🏼
@@lucasmarzo9297 IMHO Count Basie was the best at what he did. However, comparing his band with Stan Kenton is like comparing the New York Yankees with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What Bill and Stan did was VERY different and should not be compared. The Kenton bands were intended to be a wall of sound. The Basie band was the master of musical subtlety and finess. Both are to be admired and enjoyed - but for different reasons.
The mellophonium player - on the far right with the glasses - was a close & long time friend of mine / ours - Keith La Motte. He played for Stan Kenton - circa 1961-63 -- after he graduated from UC - Santa Barbara. Sadly, Keith passed away about 4 months ago. On a related note ( NO pun in10did ) - I saw the Kenton Orchestra record this tune & many others when they did one of Stan Kenton's Summer College Workshops at BYU - in August 1971 - when I was working on my doctorate there. That was quite a thrill !
I am now 70 but i was listening to Kenton when i was in my 20s. i have 30 plus of his albums in my collection. i enjoy being with you people that loves his ahead of is time music.
Dad, this is for you. Thanks for bringing me to see & hear Stan's orchestra live. Hope those angels of music are still knocking your socks off. I miss you.
Reposting this from a comment five years ago, and waaaaaaayyyyyy down the comment line: The personnel, if anyone is wondering: Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d).
This song is awesome, I really wish I was alive long before this so I can watch this live and experience the true power of this band, I can only imagine.
the drummer is Dee Barton, a trombone player; Kenton fired Jerry mcKenzie and the new drummer could not come for a week, so Dee said he could play drums; he did and Stan told the new drummer not to come. Dee did the great arr on Here's That Rainy Day, Singing Oyster, Waltz of the Prophets and many others.
The best bad-ass song, ever! Not up for debate, lol! The first time I heard this was when I was 16, in 1978. Love it today just as much as I did then...over 38 years ago. And, I love the Scouts rendition of this, too. I marched, not in DCI but grew up listening to so much of this music.
Being a drum corps fan years ago introduced me to so much great music when I was young….big jazz, classical and even Broadway. Malagueña, Fanfare for the New, Pictures at an Exhibition, Appalachian Spring….the list goes on and on!
Update: because of this song, i am now an owner of a Mellophonium. I absolutely love this thing and hope to use it to play this song alongside my school jazz band
OH, MY GOD!!! THIS has got to be THE MOST explosive, exhilerating rendition of Malaguena I have EVER heard! The pulsating power of all that brass PLUS the increasing drive of the drums was spectacular.....Bravo Stan, R.I.P.!
Stan Kenton was my favourite band and very recently I was shocked to discover that his daughter - I belive her name is Leslie? wrote in a book that after her mother died her father and she engaged in an incestuous relationship. Please tell me such a shocking ,illegal activity never occurred. ....... Dick Tynan Dublin Ireland 2o2o
Always , always used Kenton's Malaguena to test the speakers of any new system of friends and family. Also liked to crank up the volume in the band room after school with Kenton . St. Paul CHS. 1965
Great memories. I played tuba and string bass at Wichita State University in the late 60's. Kenton invited our jazz band to his rehearsal at the Cotillion ballroom. We played a couple of charts and he was impressed and got us a slot at the Kansas City Jazz festival playing his West Side Story chart which I played tuba on. So Sunday we played, then later Kenton performed and the closer was Lou Rawls. What a great day. When I moved to Santa Monica, I heard him at the Civic Center in 1973. Just a great band.
It is one of the great pleasures in my life to have seen this band live in London, mid 70's. Simply breathtaking, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I got to see the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the late 1970s at The River's Edge in Chattanooga, TN. This song was played and it was off-the-charts amazing. Such phenomenal musicians and leadership. What a great opportunity for the performers and audience. One of the best performances I've heard in my life. 1000 Stan Kenton's to the world!
My dad, Bob Behrendt, told me about when they recorded this piece of music in the studio...they had to freeze the studio to keep the band from maxing out all the controls...they were told to show up in the next morning and bring their overcoats!
This was the song that introduced me to Kenton. I had a drumming hero while I was in Junior High..and he played drums in the High School and they played this..and just blew me away. While in College I was able to meet and perform for Bill Holman..What an honor.
Thank you for sharing this legendary pioneer in jazz with us. Stan is the "Gold Standard" in everything Jazz represents. His music was, and still is, incomparable, and we were blessed to have him in our lives. I was privileged and honored to know him and those of us who were able to see him and his majestic Band perform will never forget him, but am thankful for the memories he left for all of us to share and be nourished by. Gratefully a lifetime fan, Dr. Mel Preisz
Ah...the classic Kenton V setup. My high school band director almost always used this setup. Not sure if Kenton invented it but we always referred to it as the Kenton V...with the saxes facing the brass with rhythm in between. Of course, we didn't have the m-phones at all.
The 1985-‘86 NTSU (gotta be right for the era) 1:00 Lab Band put this chart to bed once and for all, but it’s great to experience this, too. Compare and contrast the two…
When I was 1 (1965), my trumpet teacher took met oh hear Kenton. We stood maybe 10 feet from the band. In those days, the only thing that went through the PA was the piano, string bass, and soloists. They opened with Malaguena. Holy Shit! What a wall of sound! Never heard anything like it, and not often since, even from Maynard's (smaller) bands. That's all it took - hooked on it ever since.
I used to watch and listen to these guys practice at King Arthur's Court, a bar in Canoga Park, Ca in the mid 1970s. I worked next door to the bar at a Gilbert's 5, 10 & 25 store as a 15 year old.
@DJCtrumpet According to Don Menza (the tenor sax soloist), this was recorded in the summer of '62. This is a great arrangement - thanks for posting it!
A masterpiece of arranging performed by master musicians. This one never gets old for me and I still "tingle" at the power and precision shown. About 3:00 minuets into the piece the band "swings out" with gripping jazz rendering and it really swings. Kenton was a master and he found master musicians to play his music.
I totally agree, too. I have this on 33rpm. I loved Stan with the mellophones. I know he tooka lot of heat for using them. But with h is arrangers, like Holman and Johnny Richard, you can't go wrong. Richards used the mellophoniums magnificently in "West Side Story" Was that Holman playing the tenor solo here? He wore a crew cut and had lite hair......
Recorded in Los Angeles, July 1962 featuring Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d). I don't know who the piano player is, I'm afraid
1970 Pennsbury High School Fairless Hills,Pa., I believe, did "Stans" version under the masterful direction of Gene Polaski!! WOW!! I think that IT had more "swing" in it and was less "mechanical"!! Wish I had gotten a recording of it!!
Mr10glorious ...I had the pleasure of witnessing it. Amazingly powerful....I wanted to wrap my horn around my neck at the Neshaminy Jazz Festival after hearing them. Yes, without a doubt, they were that good!
OMF, is this his arrangement? Almost part for part 1988 Madison show seriously? Wow, fing pwnd to the "arranger" of the '88 show! WOW, I have been doing drum corps since 1986 and didn't realize we had Stan Kenton to thank for Malaguena
Played this in high school stage band, and also as a member of the Cascades D&B Corps (yeah we got the idea from the Madison Scouts in 1975, get over it). Awesome chart. 1st trumpet in stage band, 2nd soprano in Cascades.
@ktlofland The drummer is Dee Barton. He was a trombone player/composer in the band. One night the drummer didn't show for a gig and Stan let him play. He was the drummer for the band at the 1967 Clinic. Ed Soph (now at North Texas Sate Univ.) was the drummer in 1966.
Firts heard Blast! do this. Then, while checking other versions of Malaguena, I stumbled onto this version by Kenton. My reaction? Blast! stole it! Then, I heard the Madison Scouts do it! No matter who does it, this version is the best!
@ssbbwaffectionado Hello, The drummer was Dee Barton. He was also a trombone player and arranger for the band. Kenton recorded an entire album of Dee's music. Two of his well-known compositions are "Turtle Talk" and "Waltz of the Prophets." I saw this band at Fort Meade in MD in 60's. Rich
This is the greatest big band arrangement ever!! Stan was the freaking man!! Definitely a hero of mine! He took big band to another dimension with his arrangements and compositions! He was at least 30 years ahead of his time! May he rest in peace.
I went to see the great Stan Kenton at the "Lido" in Norwich, England, in 1955 or '56. It was an experience I shall always remember. Thank you for sharing.
anybody notice that Maynard Ferguson stood up at the end to play octave up lines? I got to hear Stan Kenton play Malaguena two different times. I was in he front row both times! Man! Talk about a rush!! I miss him.....
I remember Dee Barton playing drums, he was a trombone player who wrote arrangements for the band and doubled on the drums. This turned out to to Stan's best band (1960's version) powerful 22 piece band, that would make your hair stand on end in person.
@irthma I was a student at the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinics in 1966 and 1967. A Kenton band concert every night fora week at Redlands University in CA. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I'm enjoying this on Fathers' Day, 2016. My dad was a HUGE big band fan, and loved none more than Kenton. And, as a horns guy, this was right up his alley! Great post!
God bless RUclips! I have been a Kenton fan for about 20 years, and I have never seen a clip of them before! Cool...a bass sax! I would have never thought that Kenton's drummer looked like that cat! The years of listening to those London Phase 4 LPs...and finally putting faces to the sounds! How square everybody looks! Kenton is so skinny!
This is the first time I've ever seen the Stan Kenton Band play this tune. I love the intensity of this piece. Awesome!!! The "melophoniums" look soo much different from today's melophones.
I was part of the West Deptford, NJ HS band and we did this arrangement in 1975. I played the mellophonium part on a French horn. Felt a rush then when playing it and I still feel a rush now 40+ years later just listening to it.
Had an old Stan Kenton vinyl that had this arrangement on it. Wow, I never thought that I would get to see it performed. bwvbach, thanks so much for posting this. You really, really gave me back some old style joy!
While I love all of Stan's marvelous music, Willis "Bill" Holman remains a master at knowing how to showcase a big band! This is a Stan/Bill collaboration at it's very best!
This is from the same DVD that also has the Frank Rosolino Quartet. Yes, it's from 1962. The same year that Don recorded with Stan on Adventures In Time.
+Channel Three I looks like he's playing an ostinato pattern for energy / feel purposes. Seems off tempo to me as well, but I think it's intentional. I think the off-tempo feel is what is throwing me off.
+Chris Flynn The drummer is Dee Barton who was also a trombone player/composer and arranger. I was familiar with him through his times at North Texas State. I was shocked when I saw the live Kenton Band and Dee was playing drums and I have no idea how that happened. In later years Dee became friends with Clint Eastwood a big jazz lover and Dee ended up writing the music for a few of his Eastwoods' movies.
My high school band program had some crazy talent, and our jazz band played this my senior year. It's the North Penn Navy Jazz Band if anyone wants to check it out. Awesome stuff.
Marvin Stamm on the jazz book iñ the trumpet section, Dalton Smith on lead trumpet Bob Fitzpatrick on lead trombone, Jim Amlotte on bass trombone, Don Menza and Gabe Baltazar in the sax section, Ray Starling took much of the solo work in the mellophone section. That was a solid band. They were all strong players. I suspect the band each one of us heard live for the first time left a deep impression on each of us and that band would always form the basis from which all other bands are judged, at least for folks like myself, very average in ability but with enthusiasm for any and all well executed arrangements.
I tried to correct myself but couldn't get in to send an amended message. Incidentally, a friend of mine auditioned for Mr. Kenton as a bassist. Didn't get the job, but turned out to be one of the best tubists I've ever known.
The quality of the television pictures nature of the format of the programme makes it seem much closer to 61 or'' 62 than '68. The fashion of those leaving and the narrow ties are early sixties. I didn't see any model of car in the closing sequence that looked like it was past the early sixties.
@mkhone Hi, I'm from Forest MS, same as Dalton. He was a friend of my father's. Dalton was in our house many times, for parties, etc. I agree with you that's he in the video. We knew his first wife Vi, also.
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Although I'm 84 the opening bars of Malaguena still make the hairs on my arms stand on end. My girlfriend (now my wife of 65 years) and I were fortunate to hear Kenton's band a couple times in the late 50s when attending the University of Nebraska. Once was in a concert setting and the other in a dancehall located a few miles south of Lincoln - where there most of the couples just stood and listened to the talented musicians. My wife's blond hair is now a lovely silver and I still believe that the 'wall of sound', as coined by someone else, is far superior and more original than a majority of the music being presented today.
RIP Stan Kenton for the musical genius that you and your band gave to the world.
Love this song in 2023. I remember it from back in the day.
@@imbees2 Wow! That's so cool that you got to see him and his band live!
what a wonderful memory, Nelson. I appreciate you sharing such a lovely memory.
I'm only 72, but Stan Kenton was a artist that I grew up with, among others.
Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps basically did this version in 88, fairly close to as written. Look it up on here. They make those old G bugles wail!
My father was personally asked to sit in with Stan's band on trumpet in Columbus, Ohio shortly after this period when the lead trumpet was sick. He was brilliant. He died very suddenly when I was 10 in 1977 at age 47. I'm still haunted by his gorgeous playing that filled our house. Oh, and this drummer was incredible!!!!!!
Everyone in Stans Band was supreme..
My Father was a big band leader he saw Stan band he said Stan was The Rebel of big bands and leaders
Your dear father was very talented to be asked too sit in on short notice by Mr Kenton!!!! Bless your dear father's heart!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
👍👌🙂💙🙏🏼
Stan Kenton was way ahead of his time, there will never be another band like his again, ever.
Don Ellis big band was pretty much up there too.
@@cpu554 And WELL ABOVE also!!!
Count Bassie
Heard this band at Indiana U 1962……no band like it since.
@@lucasmarzo9297 IMHO Count Basie was the best at what he did. However, comparing his band with Stan Kenton is like comparing the New York Yankees with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What Bill and Stan did was VERY different and should not be compared. The Kenton bands were intended to be a wall of sound. The Basie band was the master of musical subtlety and finess. Both are to be admired and enjoyed - but for different reasons.
The mellophonium player - on the far right with the glasses - was a close & long time friend of mine / ours - Keith La Motte. He played for Stan Kenton - circa 1961-63 -- after he graduated from UC - Santa Barbara. Sadly, Keith passed away about 4 months ago. On a related note ( NO pun in10did ) - I saw the Kenton Orchestra record this tune & many others when they did one of Stan Kenton's Summer College Workshops at BYU - in August 1971 - when I was working on my doctorate there. That was quite a thrill !
You can say that. I am a bit jealous. What a memory sir
I am now 70 but i was listening to Kenton when i was in my 20s. i have 30 plus of his albums in my collection. i enjoy being with you people that loves his ahead of is time music.
This arrangement was 'modern Jazz' reaching its peak of dynamism. Exciting and deeply personal. Wonderful stuff.
Dad, this is for you. Thanks for bringing me to see & hear Stan's orchestra live. Hope those angels of music are still knocking your socks off. I miss you.
I'm hoping MY Dad's reaction is exactly the same as yours up there; I miss him very much also!
The swing section in the middle at like 3:02 is the most amazing piece of writing i've ever heard.
Holman added that, I believe. But it's a fantastic hook.
It outswings most any groove anywhere!
Reposting this from a comment five years ago, and waaaaaaayyyyyy down the comment line:
The personnel, if anyone is wondering:
Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d).
Thank you 2 years later. ;)
Thank you four years later :))
Thank you 5 years later
Dee Barton was a great guy. Main instrument was trombone.
@@ericdreizen1463 Dee started playing drums...because my father, Bob Behrendt, sat on his trombone slide....
This song is awesome, I really wish I was alive long before this so I can watch this live and experience the true power of this band, I can only imagine.
There is nothing as cool as low brass!
amen brother
I play bass trombone in a Jazz Band
josiah castellano
Bones rule!!
the drummer is Dee Barton, a trombone player; Kenton fired Jerry mcKenzie and the new drummer could not come for a week, so Dee said he could play drums; he did and Stan told the new drummer not to come. Dee did the great arr on Here's That Rainy Day, Singing Oyster, Waltz of the Prophets and many others.
The best bad-ass song, ever! Not up for debate, lol! The first time I heard this was when I was 16, in 1978. Love it today just as much as I did then...over 38 years ago. And, I love the Scouts rendition of this, too. I marched, not in DCI but grew up listening to so much of this music.
Hey there, fellow drum corp nut!
Check out the Blast! Broadway recording of this arrangement. It's also really impressive.
Being a drum corps fan years ago introduced me to so much great music when I was young….big jazz, classical and even Broadway. Malagueña, Fanfare for the New, Pictures at an Exhibition, Appalachian Spring….the list goes on and on!
Which Scouts rendition? The almost straight up 88 Holman? The 80, 96, 12? Or something from prior?
Update: because of this song, i am now an owner of a Mellophonium. I absolutely love this thing and hope to use it to play this song alongside my school jazz band
Me being a trombonist I've always wanted to own one myself. How was it when you first played it?
OH, MY GOD!!! THIS has got to be THE MOST explosive, exhilerating rendition of Malaguena I have EVER heard!
The pulsating power of all that brass PLUS the increasing drive of the drums was spectacular.....Bravo Stan, R.I.P.!
Stan Kenton was my favourite band and very recently I was shocked to discover that his daughter - I belive her name is Leslie? wrote in a book that after her mother died her father and she engaged in an incestuous relationship.
Please tell me such a shocking ,illegal activity never occurred. .......
Dick Tynan Dublin Ireland 2o2o
And Stan acknowledges Mr. Bill Holman as the genius who arranged this masterpiece.
@@richardtynan2805
What if it did? Will you stop listening to Kenton?
Look for drum corps' Madison Scouts 1988 for a great version. That would be an 80 piece horn line. Better than Stan Kenton's group? You be the judge.
Scouts nowhere near Stan's band. Dream on.
Always , always used Kenton's Malaguena to test the speakers of any new system of friends and family. Also liked to crank up the volume in the band room after school with Kenton . St. Paul CHS. 1965
The sound of a country that was about to send astronauts to the moon. What does it sound like now?
Great memories. I played tuba and string bass at Wichita State University in the late 60's. Kenton invited our jazz band to his rehearsal at the Cotillion ballroom. We played a couple of charts and he was impressed and got us a slot at the Kansas City Jazz festival playing his West Side Story chart which I played tuba on. So Sunday we played, then later Kenton performed and the closer was Lou Rawls. What a great day. When I moved to Santa Monica, I heard him at the Civic Center in 1973. Just a great band.
It is one of the great pleasures in my life to have seen this band live in London, mid 70's.
Simply breathtaking, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I got to see the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the late 1970s at The River's Edge in Chattanooga, TN. This song was played and it was off-the-charts amazing. Such phenomenal musicians and leadership. What a great opportunity for the performers and audience. One of the best performances I've heard in my life. 1000 Stan Kenton's to the world!
Kenton's band and Holman's chart- sounds great 50+ years later.
i've heard this called the loudest piece of music ever written
i'd believe it
My dad, Bob Behrendt, told me about when they recorded this piece of music in the studio...they had to freeze the studio to keep the band from maxing out all the controls...they were told to show up in the next morning and bring their overcoats!
@@kurtbehrendt2629 wow, that's awesome! i mean, unfortunate for the players, but the *story* is an awesome one!
This was the song that introduced me to Kenton. I had a drumming hero while I was in Junior High..and he played drums in the High School and they played this..and just blew me away. While in College I was able to meet and perform for Bill Holman..What an honor.
Stan made us men in the 50s. He was the Man! Never topped! Now they call a couple of teenage girls a BAND!
Thank you for sharing this legendary pioneer in jazz with us. Stan is the "Gold Standard" in everything Jazz represents. His music was, and still is, incomparable, and we were blessed to have him in our lives. I was privileged and honored to know him and those of us who were able to see him and his majestic Band perform will never forget him, but am thankful for the memories he left for all of us to share and be nourished by. Gratefully a lifetime fan, Dr. Mel Preisz
What an amazing piece. The kick into full swing at 3:00 just has me in happy chills.
Hello Su, How are you doing?
Ah...the classic Kenton V setup. My high school band director almost always used this setup. Not sure if Kenton invented it but we always referred to it as the Kenton V...with the saxes facing the brass with rhythm in between. Of course, we didn't have the m-phones at all.
The 1985-‘86 NTSU (gotta be right for the era) 1:00 Lab Band put this chart to bed once and for all, but it’s great to experience this, too. Compare and contrast the two…
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Jazz Scene USA was really great but too shorts.Had great artists of 1962
Malagueña was composed by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. August 6, 1895 - November 29, 1963
+Ricardo Camara You got that right!
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When I was 1 (1965), my trumpet teacher took met oh hear Kenton. We stood maybe 10 feet from the band. In those days, the only thing that went through the PA was the piano, string bass, and soloists. They opened with Malaguena. Holy Shit! What a wall of sound! Never heard anything like it, and not often since, even from Maynard's (smaller) bands. That's all it took - hooked on it ever since.
Saw him in UK 1956, I was 16. The greatest of them all. Just too good for most.
I used to watch and listen to these guys practice at King Arthur's Court, a bar in Canoga Park, Ca in the mid 1970s. I worked next door to the bar at a Gilbert's 5, 10 & 25 store as a 15 year old.
damn william howard taft is a crazy drummer
Dee Barton
@DJCtrumpet According to Don Menza (the tenor sax soloist), this was recorded in the summer of '62.
This is a great arrangement - thanks for posting it!
I've been transported to another place...again! This is absolutely stunning.
A masterpiece of arranging performed by master musicians. This one never gets old for me and I still "tingle" at the power and precision shown. About 3:00 minuets into the piece the band "swings out" with gripping jazz rendering and it really swings. Kenton was a master and he found master musicians to play his music.
I totally agree, he was the greatest, I have lots of his albums, the ones that were recorded on "Creative World" label are outstanding.
I totally agree, too. I have this on 33rpm. I loved Stan with the mellophones. I know he tooka lot of heat for using them. But with h is arrangers, like Holman and Johnny Richard, you can't go wrong. Richards used the mellophoniums magnificently in "West Side Story" Was that Holman playing the tenor solo here? He wore a crew cut and had lite hair......
those mellophoniums added such a beautiful color/tone. I heard they hated playing them tho
Luis Gasca, from Houston, TX, is one of the mellophonium players.
They are next to impossible to play in tune
So many marching and drum Corp arrangements later.. (looks at Madison Scouts, and UMASS), I HAD to check out the original
Thank you Stan. Available for posterity. Remembered forever. England, September, 2024.
Recorded in Los Angeles, July 1962 featuring Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d). I don't know who the piano player is, I'm afraid
1970 Pennsbury High School Fairless Hills,Pa., I believe, did "Stans" version under the masterful direction of Gene Polaski!! WOW!! I think that IT had more "swing" in it and was less "mechanical"!! Wish I had gotten a recording of it!!
Mr10glorious ...I had the pleasure of witnessing it. Amazingly powerful....I wanted to wrap my horn around my neck at the Neshaminy Jazz Festival after hearing them. Yes, without a doubt, they were that good!
OMF, is this his arrangement? Almost part for part 1988 Madison show seriously? Wow, fing pwnd to the "arranger" of the '88 show! WOW, I have been doing drum corps since 1986 and didn't realize we had Stan Kenton to thank for Malaguena
Played this in high school stage band, and also as a member of the Cascades D&B Corps (yeah we got the idea from the Madison Scouts in 1975, get over it). Awesome chart. 1st trumpet in stage band, 2nd soprano in Cascades.
@ktlofland The drummer is Dee Barton. He was a trombone player/composer in the band. One night the drummer didn't show for a gig and Stan let him play. He was the drummer for the band at the 1967 Clinic. Ed Soph (now at North Texas Sate Univ.) was the drummer in 1966.
Firts heard Blast! do this. Then, while checking other versions of Malaguena, I stumbled onto this version by Kenton. My reaction? Blast! stole it! Then, I heard the Madison Scouts do it!
No matter who does it, this version is the best!
Kenton at his incomparable polyrhythm Best. Way ahead of his time. DICK TYNAN DUBLIN IRELAND 2021
@ssbbwaffectionado
Hello,
The drummer was Dee Barton. He was also a trombone player and arranger for the band. Kenton recorded an entire album of Dee's music. Two of his well-known compositions are "Turtle Talk" and "Waltz of the Prophets." I saw this band at Fort Meade in MD in 60's.
Rich
Kentons stuff was incredibly difficult to perfect, but when we'd get to performance quality, what a rush!
This was awesome. Kenton and his Orchestra have always been the best!!!
This is the greatest big band arrangement ever!! Stan was the freaking man!! Definitely a hero of mine! He took big band to another dimension with his arrangements and compositions! He was at least 30 years ahead of his time! May he rest in peace.
suWEET! I've played Malaguena several times in drum corp and jazz bands. Watching this give me goose bumps.
@@domenicv7962 Sky Ryders from Hutchinson, KS in 1978
Still one of the most exciting and powerful arrangements for big band ever.
Thanks to whoever posted this
Hello Elena, How are you doing?
Phrygian mode at its best!! Thanks for posting this.
Spectacular performance!!! Powerful!! Kind of reminiscent of music at bull ring in Spain I attended!!!
Viera High School 2010 show... Good times! Miss marching band!
I went to see the great Stan Kenton at the "Lido" in Norwich, England, in 1955 or '56. It was an experience I shall always remember.
Thank you for sharing.
I really miss Stan Kenton and his unique arrangements. I remember when his records came out regularly, and then no more.
anybody notice that Maynard Ferguson stood up at the end to play octave up lines? I got to hear Stan Kenton play Malaguena two different times. I was in he front row both times! Man! Talk about a rush!! I miss him.....
That was not Maynard Ferguson, it was Dalton Smith, Stan's lead trumpet player for many years. Maynard left the band in the early fifties.
After all that, I'm surprised that every piece of that trap set didn't fall over and collapse like something out of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, love it.
ride cymbal is a little overbearing at times lol.. i love this chart!
You beat me to the comment. It took away from the ensemble
Yeah, and anyone sitting near him has permanent high frequency hearing loss. I'd shove that cymbal up his * * *.
If I remember correctly, the Madison Scouts first played this in the late 1960s. And I think the Blue Stars also played a version of it in the 1970s.
This is by far my favorite jazz piece to play, so much fun, the perfect jazz
I remember Dee Barton playing drums, he was a trombone player who wrote arrangements for the band and doubled on the drums. This turned out to to Stan's best band (1960's version) powerful 22 piece band, that would make your hair stand on end in person.
@irthma I was a student at the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinics in 1966 and 1967. A Kenton band concert every night fora week at Redlands University in CA. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I'm enjoying this on Fathers' Day, 2016. My dad was a HUGE big band fan, and loved none more than Kenton. And, as a horns guy, this was right up his alley! Great post!
God bless RUclips! I have been a Kenton fan for about 20 years, and I have never seen a clip of them before!
Cool...a bass sax! I would have never thought that Kenton's drummer looked like that cat! The years of listening to those London Phase 4 LPs...and finally putting faces to the sounds! How square everybody looks! Kenton is so skinny!
these guys rip.. heard them alot 40 y ago. I agree, loud and music that infiltrated the body. nothing like it anymore.. too expensive! great post
This is the first time I've ever seen the Stan Kenton Band play this tune. I love the intensity of this piece. Awesome!!! The "melophoniums" look soo much different from today's melophones.
I was part of the West Deptford, NJ HS band and we did this arrangement in 1975. I played the mellophonium part on a French horn. Felt a rush then when playing it and I still feel a rush now 40+ years later just listening to it.
Dang, I never saw his face before! Great.
Kenton was a classic...I played trumpet but never had the opportunity or capability to play like that!
Man, this was a great band! I saw them many times in the Boston area.
I played this in high school jazz band and it was SOOOOOO much fun. That lead trombone solo is the best!
Had an old Stan Kenton vinyl that had this arrangement on it. Wow, I never thought that I would get to see it performed. bwvbach, thanks so much for posting this. You really, really gave me back some old style joy!
throwback to when you didnt even need words in a song to make people sing along and move their body
woboy88.7 Thanks for this great Kenton video. I have goose bumps just listening and watching.
Yes, it is. I've played this tune and we had the same sax line-up with bass on the bottom.
While I love all of Stan's marvelous music, Willis "Bill" Holman remains a master at knowing how to showcase a big band! This is a Stan/Bill collaboration at it's very best!
This is from the same DVD that also has the Frank Rosolino Quartet. Yes, it's from 1962. The same year that Don recorded with Stan on Adventures In Time.
Brings back memories of playing in Jazz band back in high school....
Damn that ride cymbal....so LOUD in this recording!!! It's louder than the lead trumpet!
Glorious!
Hello Maria, How are you doing?
I saw the 1955 concert at the royal Albert hall.
In the exchange of bands with Ted Heath I believe.
Love this! The ride cymbal though is about to make me go bonkers!
Chris Flynn Can you explain what the percussionist is trying to do with that cymbal? He seems off tempo to me. Is he doing this intentionally?
+Channel Three I looks like he's playing an ostinato pattern for energy / feel purposes. Seems off tempo to me as well, but I think it's intentional. I think the off-tempo feel is what is throwing me off.
+Chris Flynn The drummer is Dee Barton who was also a trombone player/composer and arranger. I was familiar with him through his times at North Texas State. I was shocked when I saw the live Kenton Band and Dee was playing drums and I have no idea how that happened. In later years Dee became friends with Clint Eastwood a big jazz lover and Dee ended up writing the music for a few of his Eastwoods' movies.
My Dad was Stan's P.R. man after ww2 I was raised on this sound! ViVa Stan the Man!
Do you have a Roster of the players and years they were with Stan?
My late father, Vern I McCarthy, Jr., would have loved watching this and known every player. He was best friends with Stan. Brian McCarthy
I would love if this recording was remastered and better balanced
Would like to hear it in full quality
My high school band program had some crazy talent, and our jazz band played this my senior year. It's the North Penn Navy Jazz Band if anyone wants to check it out. Awesome stuff.
That was Don Menza on the drowned-out tenor solo. Listen to his two solos, on the Kenton album "Adventures In Time" - March To Polaris, and 3x3x2x2x2
This was the Kenton Band I heard live a couple of times. Dee Barton on drums, Marvin
Marvin Stamm on the jazz book iñ the trumpet section, Dalton Smith on lead trumpet Bob Fitzpatrick on lead trombone, Jim Amlotte on bass trombone, Don Menza and Gabe Baltazar in the sax section, Ray Starling took much of the solo work in the mellophone section. That was a solid band. They were all strong players. I suspect the band each one of us heard live for the first time left a deep impression on each of us and that band would always form the basis from which all other bands are judged, at least for folks like myself, very average in ability but with enthusiasm for any and all well executed arrangements.
I tried to correct myself but couldn't get in to send an amended message. Incidentally, a friend of mine auditioned for Mr. Kenton as a bassist. Didn't get the job, but turned out to be one of the best tubists I've ever known.
BRILLIANT VERSION OF A WONDERFUL TUNE PLAYED BY A VERY,VERY GOOD BAND.
BLOODY FANTASTIC!
Kenton's face at 3:14, priceless
The quality of the television pictures nature of the format of the programme makes it seem much closer to 61 or'' 62 than '68. The fashion of those leaving and the narrow ties are early sixties. I didn't see any model of car in the closing sequence that looked like it was past the early sixties.
MR. STAN KENTON, (Wichita, 15 de diciembre de 1911 - Los Ángeles, 25 de agosto de 1979), This is a real cool 1962 moment in time
@mkhone Hi, I'm from Forest MS, same as Dalton. He was a friend of my father's. Dalton was in our house many times, for parties, etc. I agree with you that's he in the video. We knew his first wife Vi, also.
we're playin this exact version in jazz band this year!
Never before have I ever seen a mellophonium but ok these things sound really cool
best band EVER.... God Bless Stan Kenton...