Two CD release. Disc One: Stan Kenton's adept and fiery 1959 band, well-recorded at the Blue Note in Chicago and New Jersey's Red Hill Inn. a very diverse and appealing list of previously unreleased performances, memorably played! Disc Two: Bill Mathieu, the architect of Kenton's 1959 classic and highly praised Standards in Silhouette LP, resurrects a bounty of forgotten pieces written for Stan's orchestra and never released on Capitol Records! Newly and superbly recorded by the Nova Jazz Orchestra.
Two CD release. Disc One: Stan Kenton's adept and fiery 1959 band, well-recorded at the Blue Note in Chicago and New Jersey's Red Hill Inn. a very diverse and appealing list of previously unreleased performances, memorably played! Disc Two: Bill Mathieu, the architect of Kenton's 1959 classic and highly praised Standards in Silhouette LP, resurrects a bounty of forgotten pieces written for Stan's orchestra and never released on Capitol Records! Newly and superbly recorded by the Nova Jazz Orchestra.