Another week another label from those busy folks at AVID Entertainment!
AVID JAZZ launches a specialist label featuring legendary and not so legendary jazz greats from the 20th Century! Our aim is to combine where possible classic albums and/or unreleased rare tracks from the archives.
Our first release features perhaps an underrated jazz man born in Kansas in 1911, Stanley Newcomb Kenton. Stan labelled the music he made as “progressive jazz” and it certainly was far from the big band sound of the day played by the likes of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Kenton was the John Mayall of his day and many fine musicians passed through his bands including Kai Winding, Shelly Manne, Stan Getz, Maynard Ferguson, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, singers Anita O’Day and June Christy and many more of whom are featured on these two great re-mastered CD’s. CD2 features two classic Kenton albums, Kenton In Hi Fi and the dynamic Cuban Fire!
Listen and be amazed at an innovative jazz man at the peak of his powers!
CD1
Artistry In Rhythm
1. Artistry In Rhythm
2. Come Back To Sorrento
3. Fantasy
4. Opus In Pastels
5. Artistry In Percussion
6. Ain’t No Misery In Me (Vocalist: June Christy)
7. Safranski
8. Willow Weep For Me (Vocalist: June Christy)
9. Artistry In Bolero
10. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (Vocalists: Anita O’Day & The Orchestra)
11. Peg O’ My Heart
12. Tampico (Vocalists: June Christy & The Orchestra)
13. Capitol Punishment
14. He’s Funny That Way (Vocalist: June Christy)
15. Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy (Vocalist: June Christy)
16. Somnambulism
17. Abstraction
18. Chorale For Brass, Piano And Bongo
19. Bongo Riff
20. The Spider And The Fly (Vocalists: June Christy & The Pastels)
21. September Song (Vocalists: The Orchestra)
22. Jump For Joe
23. Laura (Vocalists: The Orchestra)
24. Spring Is Here
25. I’m Glad There Is You
26. Opus In Turquoise
CD2
Kenton In Hi-Fi
1. Artistry Jumps
2. Interlude
3. Intermission Riff
4. Minor Riff
5. Collaboration
6. Painted Rhythm
7. Southern Scandal
8. The Peanut Vendor
9. Eager Beaver
10. Concerto To End All Concertos
11. Artistry In Boogie
12. Lover
13. Unison Riff
14-20: Cuban Fire!
14. Fuego Cubano (Cuban Fire)
15. El Congo Valiente (Valiant Congo)
16. Recuerdos (Reminiscences)
17. Quien Sabe (Who Knows)
18. La Guera Baila (The Fair One Dances)
19. La Suerte De Los Tontos (Fortune Of Fools)
20. Tres Corazones (Three Hearts)
