
Artist
Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton is a musical artist formed in 1911. 107 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 107
- Releases
- 1951–2025
- Active years
- 1911
- Formed

Artist
Stan Kenton is a musical artist formed in 1911. 107 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Most popular
Adventures in Jazz
1999
Adventures in Time
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Artistry 2
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Lush Interlude
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Adventures in Blues
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Progressive Kenton
2025

Stan Kenton: Cuba & Mambo - The Hi-Fi Fire Suite
2025

The Sound of Kenton: The Waze Clearwater Jazz Concert Series
2025

The Best Jazz, Stan Kenton
2024

Just Jazz Presents, Stan Kenton
2024

Classic Albums 1947-56
2024

That Holy Christmas Feeling
2024

Genius In Rhythm (Remastered 2024)
2024

Lullaby's of Broadway
2024

40 Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

Three of a Kind: Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie
2023

Great Hits of Stan Kenton, Vol. 2
2023

Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

30 Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

Three of a Kind: Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Lionel Hampton
2023

Three of a Kind: Stan Kenton, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman
2023

10 Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

Kenton in Europe
2023

Favorites
2023

Three of a Kind: Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Benny Carter
2023

Day Dream (Jazz Idols)
2023

Just Stan Kenton
2023

Painted Rhythm
2023

On the Street Where You Live
2023

Over the Rainbow (Remastered 2014)
2023

Artistry in Boogie
2023

Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
2023

Great Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

Just Stan Kenton, Vol. 2
2023

30 More Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

50 Hits of Stan Kenton
2023

Two of a Kind: Duke Ellington & Stan Kenton
2022

Two of a Kind: Stan Kenton & Woody Herman
2022

Remastered Classics, Vol. 200, Stan Kenton
2022

Christmas Medley
2022

Two of a Kind: Stan Kenton & Gene Krupa
2022

Two of a Kind: Stan Kenton & Billy May
2022

Two of a Kind: Maynard Ferguson & Stan Kenton
2022

20 Hits of Stan Kenton
2022

Four Classic Albums (The Ballad Style of Stan Kenton / Standards in Silhouette / The Romantic Approach / Sophisticated Approach) (
2021

The Romantic Approach (2021 Digitally Remastered)
2021

On Stage in Vegas
2021

Solid Gold Stan Kenton
2020

Best Collection Stan Kenton
2020

Jazz Infusion - Stan Kenton
2020

Kenton Live from the Las Vegas Tropicana
2020

Cuban Fire!
2020

Golden Hits
2019

The Stan
2019

Collection 1945-55
2019

All the Best
2019

Stan Kenton Plays 'West Side Story'
2019

Lullaby of Broadway - Stan Kenton Plays the Best of Broadway (Remastered)
2019

Swing House
2019

The Classic Albums Collection: 1948-1962
2018

At the Holiday Ballroom
2018

Greatest Hits
2018

Gotta Be Gettin
2016

El Choclo
2016

City of Glass and This Modern World 1953
2015

Artistry in Rhythm (Remastered)
2015

Golden Hits By Stan Kenton Vol 2
2015

Early Swing with Mann and Kenton
2015

Golden Hits By Stan Kenton Vol 1
2015

Jazz in Stereo
2015

Stan Kenton
2015

On Easy Street
2015

Masters of Swing: Stan Kenton
2015

Famous Hits
2015

The Kenton Touch
2015

Kings of Jazz
2015

Young Blood
2014

City of Glass and This Modern World
2014

Early Hours
2014

STAN KENTON - WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
2014

Malibu Moonlight
2014

Vinyl Vault Presents the Four Freshman and Stan Kenton
2014

All that Jazz, Vol. 2: Stan Kenton
2014

Artistry in Jazz
2014

40 World Jazz Hits Vol 2
2014

Grandes Orquestas
2014

The Discovery of Jazz
2014

Easy Songs
2014

Limehouse Blues
2013

Las Mejores Orquestas Del Mundo Stan Kenton
2013

Artistry in Rhythm: The Complete Kenton
2013

Merry Christmas
2013

Stan Kenton - Stan Kenton - Lonely Woman (MP3 EP)
2013

Somewhere
2013

Stan Kenton & His Orchestra Play West Side Story
2013

The End of a Love Affair
2013

Christmas Days With Stan Kenton
2012

100+ Classic Greats
2012

Stan Kenton: 9th & Kenton
2010
Viva Kenton!
2005
The Stage Door Swings
2005
Standards in Silhouette
1998
City of Glass
1995
Kenton in HI-FI
1992
Stan Kenton Plays Chicago
1974
Kenton's West Side Story
1961
Portraits on Standards
1951
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 August 25, 1979) led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator. Origins Stan Kenton was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised first in Colorado and then in California. He learned piano as a child, and while still a teenager toured with various bands. In June 1941 he formed his own band, which developed into one of the best-known West Coast ensembles of the Forties. Music Kenton's musical aggregations were decidedly "orchestras." Sometimes consisting of two dozen or more musicians at once, they produced an unmistakable Kenton sound--as recognizable as that of the bands of Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, or Count Basie. So large an orchestra was able to produce a tremendous, at times overpowering, volume in the dance and concert halls of the land; among musical conservatives it developed a reputation for playing strange-sounding pieces much too loudly, and indeed one comical MC introduced Stan Kenton as "Cant Standit." A Kenton specialty was Afro-Cuban rhythm, as exported to North America by such bandleaders as Machito (whose brass and reed sound, in …