Jazz big band leader, leading the Stan Kenton Orchestra from 1941 until his death in 1979. Kenton was a pianist and did much of the composing and arranging for his band.
Biography, discography, concert reviews, and pages devoted to the 40-piece Innovations Orchestra, the North Texas State collection, the mellophonium, and associated musicians and vocalists including Dee Barton, Marvin Stamm, Peter Erskine, and June Christ www.52ndstreet.com/kenton/kenton.htm