update HOLY crap over 100,000 views! now my friends will think im popular!! ***stan kenton playing malaguena on jazz scene U.S.A in 1962 or '63 sumthing like that
Although I'm 84 the opening bars of Malaguena still make the hairs on my arms stand on end. My girlfriend (now my wife of 65 years) and I were fortunate to hear Kenton's band a couple times in the late 50s when attending the University of Nebraska. Once was in a concert setting and the other in a dancehall located a few miles south of Lincoln - where there most of the couples just stood and listened to the talented musicians. My wife's blond hair is now a lovely silver and I still believe that the 'wall of sound', as coined by someone else, is far superior and more original than a majority of the music being presented today. RIP Stan Kenton for the musical genius that you and your band gave to the world.
Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps basically did this version in 88, fairly close to as written. Look it up on here. They make those old G bugles wail!
My father was personally asked to sit in with Stan's band on trumpet in Columbus, Ohio shortly after this period when the lead trumpet was sick. He was brilliant. He died very suddenly when I was 10 in 1977 at age 47. I'm still haunted by his gorgeous playing that filled our house. Oh, and this drummer was incredible!!!!!!
The mellophonium player - on the far right with the glasses - was a close & long time friend of mine / ours - Keith La Motte. He played for Stan Kenton - circa 1961-63 -- after he graduated from UC - Santa Barbara. Sadly, Keith passed away about 4 months ago. On a related note ( NO pun in10did ) - I saw the Kenton Orchestra record this tune & many others when they did one of Stan Kenton's Summer College Workshops at BYU - in August 1971 - when I was working on my doctorate there. That was quite a thrill !
Dad, this is for you. Thanks for bringing me to see & hear Stan's orchestra live. Hope those angels of music are still knocking your socks off. I miss you.
Reposting this from a comment five years ago, and waaaaaaayyyyyy down the comment line: The personnel, if anyone is wondering: Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d).
My dad, Bob Behrendt, told me about when they recorded this piece of music in the studio...they had to freeze the studio to keep the band from maxing out all the controls...they were told to show up in the next morning and bring their overcoats!
I am now 70 but i was listening to Kenton when i was in my 20s. i have 30 plus of his albums in my collection. i enjoy being with you people that loves his ahead of is time music.
The best bad-ass song, ever! Not up for debate, lol! The first time I heard this was when I was 16, in 1978. Love it today just as much as I did then...over 38 years ago. And, I love the Scouts rendition of this, too. I marched, not in DCI but grew up listening to so much of this music.
Being a drum corps fan years ago introduced me to so much great music when I was young….big jazz, classical and even Broadway. Malagueña, Fanfare for the New, Pictures at an Exhibition, Appalachian Spring….the list goes on and on!
This song is awesome, I really wish I was alive long before this so I can watch this live and experience the true power of this band, I can only imagine.
Update: because of this song, i am now an owner of a Mellophonium. I absolutely love this thing and hope to use it to play this song alongside my school jazz band
It is one of the great pleasures in my life to have seen this band live in London, mid 70's. Simply breathtaking, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
This was the song that introduced me to Kenton. I had a drumming hero while I was in Junior High..and he played drums in the High School and they played this..and just blew me away. While in College I was able to meet and perform for Bill Holman..What an honor.
the drummer is Dee Barton, a trombone player; Kenton fired Jerry mcKenzie and the new drummer could not come for a week, so Dee said he could play drums; he did and Stan told the new drummer not to come. Dee did the great arr on Here's That Rainy Day, Singing Oyster, Waltz of the Prophets and many others.
Thank you for sharing this legendary pioneer in jazz with us. Stan is the "Gold Standard" in everything Jazz represents. His music was, and still is, incomparable, and we were blessed to have him in our lives. I was privileged and honored to know him and those of us who were able to see him and his majestic Band perform will never forget him, but am thankful for the memories he left for all of us to share and be nourished by. Gratefully a lifetime fan, Dr. Mel Preisz
OH, MY GOD!!! THIS has got to be THE MOST explosive, exhilerating rendition of Malaguena I have EVER heard! The pulsating power of all that brass PLUS the increasing drive of the drums was spectacular.....Bravo Stan, R.I.P.!
Stan Kenton was my favourite band and very recently I was shocked to discover that his daughter - I belive her name is Leslie? wrote in a book that after her mother died her father and she engaged in an incestuous relationship. Please tell me such a shocking ,illegal activity never occurred. ....... Dick Tynan Dublin Ireland 2o2o
Always , always used Kenton's Malaguena to test the speakers of any new system of friends and family. Also liked to crank up the volume in the band room after school with Kenton . St. Paul CHS. 1965
I used to watch and listen to these guys practice at King Arthur's Court, a bar in Canoga Park, Ca in the mid 1970s. I worked next door to the bar at a Gilbert's 5, 10 & 25 store as a 15 year old.
I got to see the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the late 1970s at The River's Edge in Chattanooga, TN. This song was played and it was off-the-charts amazing. Such phenomenal musicians and leadership. What a great opportunity for the performers and audience. One of the best performances I've heard in my life. 1000 Stan Kenton's to the world!
When I was 1 (1965), my trumpet teacher took met oh hear Kenton. We stood maybe 10 feet from the band. In those days, the only thing that went through the PA was the piano, string bass, and soloists. They opened with Malaguena. Holy Shit! What a wall of sound! Never heard anything like it, and not often since, even from Maynard's (smaller) bands. That's all it took - hooked on it ever since.
Ah...the classic Kenton V setup. My high school band director almost always used this setup. Not sure if Kenton invented it but we always referred to it as the Kenton V...with the saxes facing the brass with rhythm in between. Of course, we didn't have the m-phones at all.
Great memories. I played tuba and string bass at Wichita State University in the late 60's. Kenton invited our jazz band to his rehearsal at the Cotillion ballroom. We played a couple of charts and he was impressed and got us a slot at the Kansas City Jazz festival playing his West Side Story chart which I played tuba on. So Sunday we played, then later Kenton performed and the closer was Lou Rawls. What a great day. When I moved to Santa Monica, I heard him at the Civic Center in 1973. Just a great band.
anybody notice that Maynard Ferguson stood up at the end to play octave up lines? I got to hear Stan Kenton play Malaguena two different times. I was in he front row both times! Man! Talk about a rush!! I miss him.....
In the '80's, DCI opened my eyes to a variety of musical styles...big jazz with Madison and the Blue Devils, "Americana" with Garfield, modern arrangements with the Cavaliers, and symphonic styles with Santa Clara and Phantom Regiment to name a few. '88 Scouts is definetly one of the best moments!
A masterpiece of arranging performed by master musicians. This one never gets old for me and I still "tingle" at the power and precision shown. About 3:00 minuets into the piece the band "swings out" with gripping jazz rendering and it really swings. Kenton was a master and he found master musicians to play his music.
I totally agree, too. I have this on 33rpm. I loved Stan with the mellophones. I know he tooka lot of heat for using them. But with h is arrangers, like Holman and Johnny Richard, you can't go wrong. Richards used the mellophoniums magnificently in "West Side Story" Was that Holman playing the tenor solo here? He wore a crew cut and had lite hair......
Played this in high school stage band, and also as a member of the Cascades D&B Corps (yeah we got the idea from the Madison Scouts in 1975, get over it). Awesome chart. 1st trumpet in stage band, 2nd soprano in Cascades.
1970 Pennsbury High School Fairless Hills,Pa., I believe, did "Stans" version under the masterful direction of Gene Polaski!! WOW!! I think that IT had more "swing" in it and was less "mechanical"!! Wish I had gotten a recording of it!!
Mr10glorious ...I had the pleasure of witnessing it. Amazingly powerful....I wanted to wrap my horn around my neck at the Neshaminy Jazz Festival after hearing them. Yes, without a doubt, they were that good!
I'm enjoying this on Fathers' Day, 2016. My dad was a HUGE big band fan, and loved none more than Kenton. And, as a horns guy, this was right up his alley! Great post!
@DJCtrumpet According to Don Menza (the tenor sax soloist), this was recorded in the summer of '62. This is a great arrangement - thanks for posting it!
OMF, is this his arrangement? Almost part for part 1988 Madison show seriously? Wow, fing pwnd to the "arranger" of the '88 show! WOW, I have been doing drum corps since 1986 and didn't realize we had Stan Kenton to thank for Malaguena
I remember Dee Barton playing drums, he was a trombone player who wrote arrangements for the band and doubled on the drums. This turned out to to Stan's best band (1960's version) powerful 22 piece band, that would make your hair stand on end in person.
I went to see the great Stan Kenton at the "Lido" in Norwich, England, in 1955 or '56. It was an experience I shall always remember. Thank you for sharing.
I was part of the West Deptford, NJ HS band and we did this arrangement in 1975. I played the mellophonium part on a French horn. Felt a rush then when playing it and I still feel a rush now 40+ years later just listening to it.
This is the greatest big band arrangement ever!! Stan was the freaking man!! Definitely a hero of mine! He took big band to another dimension with his arrangements and compositions! He was at least 30 years ahead of his time! May he rest in peace.
Recorded in Los Angeles, July 1962 featuring Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d). I don't know who the piano player is, I'm afraid
Had an old Stan Kenton vinyl that had this arrangement on it. Wow, I never thought that I would get to see it performed. bwvbach, thanks so much for posting this. You really, really gave me back some old style joy!
Firts heard Blast! do this. Then, while checking other versions of Malaguena, I stumbled onto this version by Kenton. My reaction? Blast! stole it! Then, I heard the Madison Scouts do it! No matter who does it, this version is the best!
Marvin Stamm on the jazz book iñ the trumpet section, Dalton Smith on lead trumpet Bob Fitzpatrick on lead trombone, Jim Amlotte on bass trombone, Don Menza and Gabe Baltazar in the sax section, Ray Starling took much of the solo work in the mellophone section. That was a solid band. They were all strong players. I suspect the band each one of us heard live for the first time left a deep impression on each of us and that band would always form the basis from which all other bands are judged, at least for folks like myself, very average in ability but with enthusiasm for any and all well executed arrangements.
My high school band program had some crazy talent, and our jazz band played this my senior year. It's the North Penn Navy Jazz Band if anyone wants to check it out. Awesome stuff.
@irthma I was a student at the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinics in 1966 and 1967. A Kenton band concert every night fora week at Redlands University in CA. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
This is the first time I've ever seen the Stan Kenton Band play this tune. I love the intensity of this piece. Awesome!!! The "melophoniums" look soo much different from today's melophones.
God bless TH-cam! I have been a Kenton fan for about 20 years, and I have never seen a clip of them before! Cool...a bass sax! I would have never thought that Kenton's drummer looked like that cat! The years of listening to those London Phase 4 LPs...and finally putting faces to the sounds! How square everybody looks! Kenton is so skinny!
@ktlofland The drummer is Dee Barton. He was a trombone player/composer in the band. One night the drummer didn't show for a gig and Stan let him play. He was the drummer for the band at the 1967 Clinic. Ed Soph (now at North Texas Sate Univ.) was the drummer in 1966.
Although I'm 84 the opening bars of Malaguena still make the hairs on my arms stand on end. My girlfriend (now my wife of 65 years) and I were fortunate to hear Kenton's band a couple times in the late 50s when attending the University of Nebraska. Once was in a concert setting and the other in a dancehall located a few miles south of Lincoln - where there most of the couples just stood and listened to the talented musicians. My wife's blond hair is now a lovely silver and I still believe that the 'wall of sound', as coined by someone else, is far superior and more original than a majority of the music being presented today.
RIP Stan Kenton for the musical genius that you and your band gave to the world.
Love this song in 2023. I remember it from back in the day.
@@imbees2 Wow! That's so cool that you got to see him and his band live!
what a wonderful memory, Nelson. I appreciate you sharing such a lovely memory.
I'm only 72, but Stan Kenton was a artist that I grew up with, among others.
Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps basically did this version in 88, fairly close to as written. Look it up on here. They make those old G bugles wail!
My father was personally asked to sit in with Stan's band on trumpet in Columbus, Ohio shortly after this period when the lead trumpet was sick. He was brilliant. He died very suddenly when I was 10 in 1977 at age 47. I'm still haunted by his gorgeous playing that filled our house. Oh, and this drummer was incredible!!!!!!
Everyone in Stans Band was supreme..
My Father was a big band leader he saw Stan band he said Stan was The Rebel of big bands and leaders
Stan Kenton was way ahead of his time, there will never be another band like his again, ever.
Don Ellis big band was pretty much up there too.
@@cpu554 And WELL ABOVE also!!!
Count Bassie
Heard this band at Indiana U 1962……no band like it since.
The mellophonium player - on the far right with the glasses - was a close & long time friend of mine / ours - Keith La Motte. He played for Stan Kenton - circa 1961-63 -- after he graduated from UC - Santa Barbara. Sadly, Keith passed away about 4 months ago. On a related note ( NO pun in10did ) - I saw the Kenton Orchestra record this tune & many others when they did one of Stan Kenton's Summer College Workshops at BYU - in August 1971 - when I was working on my doctorate there. That was quite a thrill !
You can say that. I am a bit jealous. What a memory sir
This arrangement was 'modern Jazz' reaching its peak of dynamism. Exciting and deeply personal. Wonderful stuff.
Dad, this is for you. Thanks for bringing me to see & hear Stan's orchestra live. Hope those angels of music are still knocking your socks off. I miss you.
I'm hoping MY Dad's reaction is exactly the same as yours up there; I miss him very much also!
The swing section in the middle at like 3:02 is the most amazing piece of writing i've ever heard.
Holman added that, I believe. But it's a fantastic hook.
It outswings most any groove anywhere!
There is nothing as cool as low brass!
amen brother
I play bass trombone in a Jazz Band
josiah castellano
Bones rule!!
Reposting this from a comment five years ago, and waaaaaaayyyyyy down the comment line:
The personnel, if anyone is wondering:
Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d).
Thank you 2 years later. ;)
Thank you four years later :))
Thank you 5 years later
Dee Barton was a great guy. Main instrument was trombone.
@@ericdreizen1463 Dee started playing drums...because my father, Bob Behrendt, sat on his trombone slide....
i've heard this called the loudest piece of music ever written
i'd believe it
My dad, Bob Behrendt, told me about when they recorded this piece of music in the studio...they had to freeze the studio to keep the band from maxing out all the controls...they were told to show up in the next morning and bring their overcoats!
@@kurtbehrendt2629 wow, that's awesome! i mean, unfortunate for the players, but the *story* is an awesome one!
I am now 70 but i was listening to Kenton when i was in my 20s. i have 30 plus of his albums in my collection. i enjoy being with you people that loves his ahead of is time music.
The best bad-ass song, ever! Not up for debate, lol! The first time I heard this was when I was 16, in 1978. Love it today just as much as I did then...over 38 years ago. And, I love the Scouts rendition of this, too. I marched, not in DCI but grew up listening to so much of this music.
Hey there, fellow drum corp nut!
Check out the Blast! Broadway recording of this arrangement. It's also really impressive.
Being a drum corps fan years ago introduced me to so much great music when I was young….big jazz, classical and even Broadway. Malagueña, Fanfare for the New, Pictures at an Exhibition, Appalachian Spring….the list goes on and on!
Which Scouts rendition? The almost straight up 88 Holman? The 80, 96, 12? Or something from prior?
This song is awesome, I really wish I was alive long before this so I can watch this live and experience the true power of this band, I can only imagine.
Kenton's band and Holman's chart- sounds great 50+ years later.
Update: because of this song, i am now an owner of a Mellophonium. I absolutely love this thing and hope to use it to play this song alongside my school jazz band
Me being a trombonist I've always wanted to own one myself. How was it when you first played it?
It is one of the great pleasures in my life to have seen this band live in London, mid 70's.
Simply breathtaking, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
This was the song that introduced me to Kenton. I had a drumming hero while I was in Junior High..and he played drums in the High School and they played this..and just blew me away. While in College I was able to meet and perform for Bill Holman..What an honor.
damn william howard taft is a crazy drummer
Dee Barton
the drummer is Dee Barton, a trombone player; Kenton fired Jerry mcKenzie and the new drummer could not come for a week, so Dee said he could play drums; he did and Stan told the new drummer not to come. Dee did the great arr on Here's That Rainy Day, Singing Oyster, Waltz of the Prophets and many others.
Thank you for sharing this legendary pioneer in jazz with us. Stan is the "Gold Standard" in everything Jazz represents. His music was, and still is, incomparable, and we were blessed to have him in our lives. I was privileged and honored to know him and those of us who were able to see him and his majestic Band perform will never forget him, but am thankful for the memories he left for all of us to share and be nourished by. Gratefully a lifetime fan, Dr. Mel Preisz
OH, MY GOD!!! THIS has got to be THE MOST explosive, exhilerating rendition of Malaguena I have EVER heard!
The pulsating power of all that brass PLUS the increasing drive of the drums was spectacular.....Bravo Stan, R.I.P.!
Stan Kenton was my favourite band and very recently I was shocked to discover that his daughter - I belive her name is Leslie? wrote in a book that after her mother died her father and she engaged in an incestuous relationship.
Please tell me such a shocking ,illegal activity never occurred. .......
Dick Tynan Dublin Ireland 2o2o
And Stan acknowledges Mr. Bill Holman as the genius who arranged this masterpiece.
@@richardtynan2805
What if it did? Will you stop listening to Kenton?
Look for drum corps' Madison Scouts 1988 for a great version. That would be an 80 piece horn line. Better than Stan Kenton's group? You be the judge.
Scouts nowhere near Stan's band. Dream on.
Always , always used Kenton's Malaguena to test the speakers of any new system of friends and family. Also liked to crank up the volume in the band room after school with Kenton . St. Paul CHS. 1965
I used to watch and listen to these guys practice at King Arthur's Court, a bar in Canoga Park, Ca in the mid 1970s. I worked next door to the bar at a Gilbert's 5, 10 & 25 store as a 15 year old.
Saw him in UK 1956, I was 16. The greatest of them all. Just too good for most.
Malagueña was composed by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. August 6, 1895 - November 29, 1963
+Ricardo Camara You got that right!
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Viera High School 2010 show... Good times! Miss marching band!
Kentons stuff was incredibly difficult to perfect, but when we'd get to performance quality, what a rush!
What an amazing piece. The kick into full swing at 3:00 just has me in happy chills.
Hello Su, How are you doing?
I got to see the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the late 1970s at The River's Edge in Chattanooga, TN. This song was played and it was off-the-charts amazing. Such phenomenal musicians and leadership. What a great opportunity for the performers and audience. One of the best performances I've heard in my life. 1000 Stan Kenton's to the world!
I've been transported to another place...again! This is absolutely stunning.
When I was 1 (1965), my trumpet teacher took met oh hear Kenton. We stood maybe 10 feet from the band. In those days, the only thing that went through the PA was the piano, string bass, and soloists. They opened with Malaguena. Holy Shit! What a wall of sound! Never heard anything like it, and not often since, even from Maynard's (smaller) bands. That's all it took - hooked on it ever since.
throwback to when you didnt even need words in a song to make people sing along and move their body
Ah...the classic Kenton V setup. My high school band director almost always used this setup. Not sure if Kenton invented it but we always referred to it as the Kenton V...with the saxes facing the brass with rhythm in between. Of course, we didn't have the m-phones at all.
Stan made us men in the 50s. He was the Man! Never topped! Now they call a couple of teenage girls a BAND!
Still one of the most exciting and powerful arrangements for big band ever.
those mellophoniums added such a beautiful color/tone. I heard they hated playing them tho
Luis Gasca, from Houston, TX, is one of the mellophonium players.
They are next to impossible to play in tune
Great memories. I played tuba and string bass at Wichita State University in the late 60's. Kenton invited our jazz band to his rehearsal at the Cotillion ballroom. We played a couple of charts and he was impressed and got us a slot at the Kansas City Jazz festival playing his West Side Story chart which I played tuba on. So Sunday we played, then later Kenton performed and the closer was Lou Rawls. What a great day. When I moved to Santa Monica, I heard him at the Civic Center in 1973. Just a great band.
anybody notice that Maynard Ferguson stood up at the end to play octave up lines? I got to hear Stan Kenton play Malaguena two different times. I was in he front row both times! Man! Talk about a rush!! I miss him.....
That was not Maynard Ferguson, it was Dalton Smith, Stan's lead trumpet player for many years. Maynard left the band in the early fifties.
This was awesome. Kenton and his Orchestra have always been the best!!!
1988 madison scouts anyone
The Scouts have played this around 6-7 times, 1988 was definitely their best.
In the '80's, DCI opened my eyes to a variety of musical styles...big jazz with Madison and the Blue Devils, "Americana" with Garfield, modern arrangements with the Cavaliers, and symphonic styles with Santa Clara and Phantom Regiment to name a few. '88 Scouts is definetly one of the best moments!
Hawthorne Caballeros played it in the early 70s.
I can’t hear this one and not think about the Scouts!
I really miss Stan Kenton and his unique arrangements. I remember when his records came out regularly, and then no more.
A masterpiece of arranging performed by master musicians. This one never gets old for me and I still "tingle" at the power and precision shown. About 3:00 minuets into the piece the band "swings out" with gripping jazz rendering and it really swings. Kenton was a master and he found master musicians to play his music.
I totally agree, he was the greatest, I have lots of his albums, the ones that were recorded on "Creative World" label are outstanding.
I totally agree, too. I have this on 33rpm. I loved Stan with the mellophones. I know he tooka lot of heat for using them. But with h is arrangers, like Holman and Johnny Richard, you can't go wrong. Richards used the mellophoniums magnificently in "West Side Story" Was that Holman playing the tenor solo here? He wore a crew cut and had lite hair......
Played this in high school stage band, and also as a member of the Cascades D&B Corps (yeah we got the idea from the Madison Scouts in 1975, get over it). Awesome chart. 1st trumpet in stage band, 2nd soprano in Cascades.
1970 Pennsbury High School Fairless Hills,Pa., I believe, did "Stans" version under the masterful direction of Gene Polaski!! WOW!! I think that IT had more "swing" in it and was less "mechanical"!! Wish I had gotten a recording of it!!
Mr10glorious ...I had the pleasure of witnessing it. Amazingly powerful....I wanted to wrap my horn around my neck at the Neshaminy Jazz Festival after hearing them. Yes, without a doubt, they were that good!
After all that, I'm surprised that every piece of that trap set didn't fall over and collapse like something out of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, love it.
I'm enjoying this on Fathers' Day, 2016. My dad was a HUGE big band fan, and loved none more than Kenton. And, as a horns guy, this was right up his alley! Great post!
This is by far my favorite jazz piece to play, so much fun, the perfect jazz
@DJCtrumpet According to Don Menza (the tenor sax soloist), this was recorded in the summer of '62.
This is a great arrangement - thanks for posting it!
ride cymbal is a little overbearing at times lol.. i love this chart!
You beat me to the comment. It took away from the ensemble
Yeah, and anyone sitting near him has permanent high frequency hearing loss. I'd shove that cymbal up his * * *.
OMF, is this his arrangement? Almost part for part 1988 Madison show seriously? Wow, fing pwnd to the "arranger" of the '88 show! WOW, I have been doing drum corps since 1986 and didn't realize we had Stan Kenton to thank for Malaguena
I remember Dee Barton playing drums, he was a trombone player who wrote arrangements for the band and doubled on the drums. This turned out to to Stan's best band (1960's version) powerful 22 piece band, that would make your hair stand on end in person.
I went to see the great Stan Kenton at the "Lido" in Norwich, England, in 1955 or '56. It was an experience I shall always remember.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks to whoever posted this
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suWEET! I've played Malaguena several times in drum corp and jazz bands. Watching this give me goose bumps.
@@domenicv7962 Sky Ryders from Hutchinson, KS in 1978
Kenton at his incomparable polyrhythm Best. Way ahead of his time. DICK TYNAN DUBLIN IRELAND 2021
Phrygian mode at its best!! Thanks for posting this.
I was part of the West Deptford, NJ HS band and we did this arrangement in 1975. I played the mellophonium part on a French horn. Felt a rush then when playing it and I still feel a rush now 40+ years later just listening to it.
Heinz liebt Kenton seine musik seit 1950 und noch immer !!!!!!!!!
This is the greatest big band arrangement ever!! Stan was the freaking man!! Definitely a hero of mine! He took big band to another dimension with his arrangements and compositions! He was at least 30 years ahead of his time! May he rest in peace.
The sound of a country that was about to send astronauts to the moon. What does it sound like now?
Kenton was a classic...I played trumpet but never had the opportunity or capability to play like that!
Recorded in Los Angeles, July 1962 featuring Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Marvin Stamm, Keith LaMotte, Bill Briggs (tp), Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo (tb), Jim Amlotte (b-tb), Dave Wheeler (b-tb, tu), Gabe Baltazar (as), Don Menza, Charlie Mariano,Ray Florian (ts), Allan Beutler (bar), Joel Kaye (bs), Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Carl Saunders, Lou Gasca (mellophonium), Bucky Calabrese (b), Dee Barton (d). I don't know who the piano player is, I'm afraid
Man, this was a great band! I saw them many times in the Boston area.
If I remember correctly, the Madison Scouts first played this in the late 1960s. And I think the Blue Stars also played a version of it in the 1970s.
Had an old Stan Kenton vinyl that had this arrangement on it. Wow, I never thought that I would get to see it performed. bwvbach, thanks so much for posting this. You really, really gave me back some old style joy!
woboy88.7 Thanks for this great Kenton video. I have goose bumps just listening and watching.
Brings back memories of playing in Jazz band back in high school....
Figures that Steve Allen Produced that TV show.
Firts heard Blast! do this. Then, while checking other versions of Malaguena, I stumbled onto this version by Kenton. My reaction? Blast! stole it! Then, I heard the Madison Scouts do it!
No matter who does it, this version is the best!
never forget this 88 Madison best horns in the world at that time
I saw the 1955 concert at the royal Albert hall.
In the exchange of bands with Ted Heath I believe.
Dang, I never saw his face before! Great.
these guys rip.. heard them alot 40 y ago. I agree, loud and music that infiltrated the body. nothing like it anymore.. too expensive! great post
Glorious!
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Sue Bonnette I played this in mt Drum corps best song ever love it
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I played this in high school jazz band and it was SOOOOOO much fun. That lead trombone solo is the best!
This was the Kenton Band I heard live a couple of times. Dee Barton on drums, Marvin
Marvin Stamm on the jazz book iñ the trumpet section, Dalton Smith on lead trumpet Bob Fitzpatrick on lead trombone, Jim Amlotte on bass trombone, Don Menza and Gabe Baltazar in the sax section, Ray Starling took much of the solo work in the mellophone section. That was a solid band. They were all strong players. I suspect the band each one of us heard live for the first time left a deep impression on each of us and that band would always form the basis from which all other bands are judged, at least for folks like myself, very average in ability but with enthusiasm for any and all well executed arrangements.
Magistral.... Fantastic👏👏
Yes, it is. I've played this tune and we had the same sax line-up with bass on the bottom.
My Dad was Stan's P.R. man after ww2 I was raised on this sound! ViVa Stan the Man!
Do you have a Roster of the players and years they were with Stan?
Expeectacular!
One of the best charts ever!
Awesome. I love this song.
He used to do this piece at my old hight school! Awsome!
My high school band program had some crazy talent, and our jazz band played this my senior year. It's the North Penn Navy Jazz Band if anyone wants to check it out. Awesome stuff.
@irthma I was a student at the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinics in 1966 and 1967. A Kenton band concert every night fora week at Redlands University in CA. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
we're playin this exact version in jazz band this year!
Kenton's face at 3:14, priceless
This is the first time I've ever seen the Stan Kenton Band play this tune. I love the intensity of this piece. Awesome!!! The "melophoniums" look soo much different from today's melophones.
FANTASTIC!
My late father, Vern I McCarthy, Jr., would have loved watching this and known every player. He was best friends with Stan. Brian McCarthy
62 or1963, brings back old memories, gas was about 23 cents a gallon and in 63 my dad bought a new chevy Belair for $2400/ the Impala was$2900
I see Maynard hitting the high notes, very cool as a young trumpet player with awesome breath control.
Not Maynard.
best band EVER.... God Bless Stan Kenton...
This gives the term 'Heavy Metal' a whole new meaning..
God bless TH-cam! I have been a Kenton fan for about 20 years, and I have never seen a clip of them before!
Cool...a bass sax! I would have never thought that Kenton's drummer looked like that cat! The years of listening to those London Phase 4 LPs...and finally putting faces to the sounds! How square everybody looks! Kenton is so skinny!
I would love if this recording was remastered and better balanced
Would like to hear it in full quality
Don't argue...just enjoy the music.
@ktlofland The drummer is Dee Barton. He was a trombone player/composer in the band. One night the drummer didn't show for a gig and Stan let him play. He was the drummer for the band at the 1967 Clinic. Ed Soph (now at North Texas Sate Univ.) was the drummer in 1966.
My life goal is to play this song