Live…On the Road – The Mike Vax Big Band: featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra

Live…On the Road – The Mike Vax Big Band: featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra
Catalog number: 356

Tracks:

01 Speak Low
comp: Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash
02 Here's That Rainy Day
comp: Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
03 Nada Mas
comp: Johnny Richards
04 Stompin' At The Savoy
comp: Harold Wheeler, Chick Webb
05 Everything Happens to Me
comp: Hoagy Carmichael, Matt Dennis
06 Sunrise Lady
comp: Bruce Johnstone
07 Theme And Variations
comp: Bill Holman
08 Big Sur
comp: Kim Richmond
09 Circe
comp: Joel Kaye
10 MacArthur Park
comp: Jimmy Webb
11 I Remember You
comp: Johnny Mercer
12 Espania
comp: Steve Huffsteter
13 Fall Ascending
comp: Kim Richmond
14 Eager Beaver
comp: Stan Kenton

…. In a venture to relive and display the exuberance and innovation that surrounds the musical styling of the late, great Stan Kenton, The Mike Vax Big Band toured and recorded with the Stan Kenton Alumni to produce Live…On the Road.

With this as motivation, The Mike Vax Big Band set out on an East Coast tour featuring the Stan Kenton Alumni.

Here is a review from Audiophile Audition (middle of page)

Here are a couple of reviews from ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM:

  • review #1
  • review #2

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