How many Stan Kenton releases are on Riffiter?

107 releases are catalogued, spanning 1951 to 2025.

What is the most recent Stan Kenton release on Riffiter?

Progressive Kenton, released in 2025.

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

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Discography

107

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About

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 …

Stan Kenton in brief

How many Stan Kenton releases are on Riffiter?: 107 releases are catalogued, spanning 1951 to 2025.
When was Stan Kenton formed?: Stan Kenton formed in 1911.
What is the most recent Stan Kenton release on Riffiter?: Progressive Kenton, released in 2025.