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Essay Galaxy - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Born December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher.
It wasn't long, however, before she realized he was graced with more than a natural gift for the keyboard and arranged for him to take lessons on the trumpet and alto saxophone from a local schoolbandmaster, who quickly noticed his ambitious, lanky prodigy had a talent to be reckoned with.
It soon became apparent to everyone young Stanley came in contact with that the intricacies of harmony, theory and counterpoint came easily to him and that he had no trouble at all assimilating and elaborating upon the imaginative....
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