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 more than twenty years, the Stan Kenton Alumni Band has kept the pulse of big-band jazz strongly beating through regular touring under the direction of trumpet master Mike Vax, who served as the ...

The Central City Swing Band will feature music composed and/or arranged by the musical legend Stan Kenton during its annual Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at Unity Chapel of Light Church ...

Here are the members of Kenton’s band in “Prologue: This is An Orchestra” from the album New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm: Thanks to Guido Herrera-Yance, host on KXLU’s long-running Latin radio ...

Stan Kenton big band lovers were out in force at the Brand Library & Art Center’s free special event on Saturday. The Recital Hall was standing room only as some 85 patrons listened to Kenton ...

December 15th marks the centennial of one of the seminal figures of jazz, Stan Kenton, who died in 1979. Kenton, who was born in Wichita and raised in Bell, was a ceaseless innovator who was once ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mar. 8 - The University of Denver's Creative Music Works Orchestra offers "West Coast Jazz" as it pays tribute to the Stan Kenton era at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Lamont School of Music's Houston Fine ...

Officially, it is "the Mike Vax Big Band featuring alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra," but the ensemble that will perform Wednesday at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is usually called simply "The ...