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!
@@lucasmarzo9297 IMHO Count Basie was the best at what he did. However, comparing his band with Stan Kenton is like comparing the New York Yankees with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What Bill and Stan did was VERY different and should not be compared. The Kenton bands were intended to be a wall of sound. The Basie band was the master of musical subtlety and finess. Both are to be admired and enjoyed - but for different reasons.
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!!!!!!
Your dear father was very talented to be asked too sit in on short notice by Mr Kenton!!!! Bless your dear father's heart!!! Thank you for sharing!!! 👍👌🙂💙🙏🏼
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 !
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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!
Please you all. Yankees, Brits and guiris en general. "Malagueña" is pronounced kind of "malagenia" (If you can pronounce de ñ sound better que better). The u doesn't sound at all. Thank you 😘
In Spanish, yes. In English, not so much. For the same reason I don't roll my Rs when ordering a "burrrrrrrito," when speaking English I say "Malagweynya." I also say "foy-er" does that bother you, too? 😉
@@jamespfitz it's not "burrrrrrrito" but "burrito". You can pronounce whatever you want that you wont bother me, but you won't neither be understood. The problem with the u after g and q is that it isn't a sound, it's only there for orthography. So it's kind of absurd to pronounce it. I hope you dont pronounce "kuesadiya for "quesadilla" word. If you liked you could even get rid of the u to write it in English, so Malagenia would be more accurate in English.
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
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
In an interview, Don Menza said he gave his notice after one day, told Stan it wasn't what he wanted to do. Yet here he is! Gave notice then recorded this? Who knows, lol?
It's really sad how in the early 60's men wore coats and ties and women wore dresses to go see Stan Kenton perform. It's like we have been impoverished some how.
I'm sorry, but I totally disagree; they/we were 'honouring' the band and respecting their high level of professionalism by 'dressing for THE occasion'!
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.
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.
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.
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......
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!
If you want to hear something, you have to hear this played by a drum & bugle corps. Try The Cadets+ Malguena or The Madison Scouts. You'll be blown away.
I was blown away when I saw the Scouts play this in '88. I was there at Arrowhead Stadium when they won. They were only one of two finalists that got me on my feet that year, the other being SCV.
Uhh well drum and bugle corps have certainly evolved to a level I never ever expected. Now that they play real instruments they draw real musicians. And since I played this as a sub with this band I can tell you 20 guys playing lead in a 20 minutes contest band is different than 1 playing it last on a two hour concert ... trust me
I'm not completely certain what you mean. I can agree with your latter comment, if you are saying that one trumpeter playing lead for two hours and then playing Maleguena last is more impressive than 20 playing balls out for 20 minutes, if that is what you meant. As to finally drawing real musicians after switching to Bflat band instruments, I find the statement to be arrogant and naïve.
Oh sorry if the truth offends you snowflake. They played on bugles with no need of real musicianship. Then they evolved to 1 valve bugles in "f" to get high notes. Now they have evolved to A. People who are musicians and B. Instruments that are in tune with 3 valves. Now I can listen to them and appreciate them for what they are, kids breaking their asses and still having fun and learning something in the process. Not stuck in front of a video game.
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.
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.....
While I love all of Stan's marvelous music, Willis "Bill" Holman remains a master at knowing how to showcase a big band! This is a Stan/Bill collaboration at it's very best!
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.
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!
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!
@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 meant no disrespect to Kenton--I was just suggesting an alternative that was highly influenced by Kenton. Please DO NOT refer to a drum & bugle corps as a summer marching band. If you ever get a chance to see a World Class drum corps competition (run by Drum Corps International) you will be truly amazed at the world class musicianship of these incredibly talented young people. I sincerely hope you will take me up on this.
Hey Rick, I made that comment flippantly, but I'm a huge fan of drum corps. I shouldn't have put it the way I did. These are 2 different mediums of playing this epic tune and both do it justice. ;)
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.
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.
Whew, this band had some talent. It was my understanding that Dee Barton didn't like his trombone playing so he switched to drums. Amazing musician/arranger. Looks like Don Menza playing the tenor solo. Is that Marv Stamm playing the trumpet solo, anyone know? Had a friend I played with at SDSU, Kurt Behrendt, whose dad I believe was in this particular band, Bob Behrendt. Kurt could scream as good or better than anyone in this band, including his dad!
f.y.i. - Keith LaMotte is the lad in the glasses at the far right end of the melophonian ( sp ?) section... sadly... Keith recently passed away in Spokane, WA. He was 82. May he R.I.P.
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!
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.
@@lucasmarzo9297 IMHO Count Basie was the best at what he did. However, comparing his band with Stan Kenton is like comparing the New York Yankees with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What Bill and Stan did was VERY different and should not be compared. The Kenton bands were intended to be a wall of sound. The Basie band was the master of musical subtlety and finess. Both are to be admired and enjoyed - but for different reasons.
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
Your dear father was very talented to be asked too sit in on short notice by Mr Kenton!!!! Bless your dear father's heart!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
👍👌🙂💙🙏🏼
This arrangement was 'modern Jazz' reaching its peak of dynamism. Exciting and deeply personal. Wonderful stuff.
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
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....
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!
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.
Kenton's band and Holman's chart- sounds great 50+ years later.
There is nothing as cool as low brass!
amen brother
I play bass trombone in a Jazz Band
josiah castellano
Bones rule!!
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?
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.
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
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!
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.
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?
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 * * *.
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!
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.
Malagueña was composed by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. August 6, 1895 - November 29, 1963
+Ricardo Camara You got that right!
Ricardo Camara ‘;
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.
damn william howard taft is a crazy drummer
Dee Barton
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!
Thanks to whoever posted this
Hello Elena, How are you doing?
Kentons stuff was incredibly difficult to perfect, but when we'd get to performance quality, what a rush!
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
The sound of a country that was about to send astronauts to the moon. What does it sound like now?
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!
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.
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
What an amazing piece. The kick into full swing at 3:00 just has me in happy chills.
Hello Su, How are you doing?
Heinz liebt Kenton seine musik seit 1950 und noch immer !!!!!!!!!
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!
Please you all. Yankees, Brits and guiris en general. "Malagueña" is pronounced kind of "malagenia" (If you can pronounce de ñ sound better que better). The u doesn't sound at all.
Thank you 😘
In Spanish, yes. In English, not so much. For the same reason I don't roll my Rs when ordering a "burrrrrrrito," when speaking English I say "Malagweynya." I also say "foy-er" does that bother you, too? 😉
@@jamespfitz it's not "burrrrrrrito" but "burrito". You can pronounce whatever you want that you wont bother me, but you won't neither be understood. The problem with the u after g and q is that it isn't a sound, it's only there for orthography. So it's kind of absurd to pronounce it. I hope you dont pronounce "kuesadiya for "quesadilla" word. If you liked you could even get rid of the u to write it in English, so Malagenia would be more accurate in English.
this was by far the best variation of this song!
I loved playing the Bari sax in jazz band to this song! :D
Me too Bari Sax had some of the great parts.
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
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
Kenton at his incomparable polyrhythm Best. Way ahead of his time. DICK TYNAN DUBLIN IRELAND 2021
In an interview, Don Menza said he gave his notice after one day, told Stan it wasn't what he wanted to do. Yet here he is! Gave notice then recorded this? Who knows, lol?
It's really sad how in the early 60's men wore coats and ties and women wore dresses to go see Stan Kenton perform. It's like we have been impoverished some how.
I'm sorry, but I totally disagree; they/we were 'honouring' the band and respecting their high level of professionalism by 'dressing for THE occasion'!
@@johnchoat357 maybe they are saying that nowadays we don’t do that
throwback to when you didnt even need words in a song to make people sing along and move their body
BRILLIANT VERSION OF A WONDERFUL TUNE PLAYED BY A VERY,VERY GOOD BAND.
BLOODY FANTASTIC!
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.
I've been transported to another place...again! This is absolutely stunning.
Wind n Brass Magicians!
Viera High School 2010 show... Good times! Miss marching band!
Fantastic band, first time I heard him Voice of America 56.Iraq.
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.
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.
Needs more cowbell!!
Stan was coming off the big band, into the jazz scene.
Stan made us men in the 50s. He was the Man! Never topped! Now they call a couple of teenage girls a BAND!
Phrygian mode at its best!! Thanks for posting this.
Cigarettes ,whisky and jazz.
The good old days.
its amazing how the baritone sax player can switch from contra-bass sax to baritone
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......
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.
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 agree mate.
This is one of my desert island records, what else is there to say about it
I think Stan Kenton looks a little funny when he conducts! Lol
This is a very common piece on the marching field. For what's pretty much the definitive version, look for Madison Scouts 1988 or 1996.
If you want to hear something, you have to hear this played by a drum & bugle corps. Try The Cadets+ Malguena or The Madison Scouts. You'll be blown away.
I was blown away when I saw the Scouts play this in '88. I was there at Arrowhead Stadium when they won. They were only one of two finalists that got me on my feet that year, the other being SCV.
Uhh well drum and bugle corps have certainly evolved to a level I never ever expected. Now that they play real instruments they draw real musicians. And since I played this as a sub with this band I can tell you 20 guys playing lead in a 20 minutes contest band is different than 1 playing it last on a two hour concert ... trust me
I'm not completely certain what you mean. I can agree with your latter comment, if you are saying that one trumpeter playing lead for two hours and then playing Maleguena last is more impressive than 20 playing balls out for 20 minutes, if that is what you meant. As to finally drawing real musicians after switching to Bflat band instruments, I find the statement to be arrogant and naïve.
Oh sorry if the truth offends you snowflake. They played on bugles with no need of real musicianship. Then they evolved to 1 valve bugles in "f" to get high notes. Now they have evolved to A. People who are musicians and B. Instruments that are in tune with 3 valves. Now I can listen to them and appreciate them for what they are, kids breaking their asses and still having fun and learning something in the process. Not stuck in front of a video game.
Snowflake? Really? Oh, you really wounded me, Vlad.
Ernesto Lecuona must be grimacing in his grave.
Call it modern jazz,,,,,,,not impressed.
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.
The zenith of progressive jazz. Right here.
Thank you Stan. Available for posterity. Remembered forever. England, September, 2024.
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.
@baklava151 No, that is a Baritone Sax.
So many marching and drum Corp arrangements later.. (looks at Madison Scouts, and UMASS), I HAD to check out the original
I would love if this recording was remastered and better balanced
Would like to hear it in full quality
Saw him in UK 1956, I was 16. The greatest of them all. Just too good for most.
While I love all of Stan's marvelous music, Willis "Bill" Holman remains a master at knowing how to showcase a big band! This is a Stan/Bill collaboration at it's very best!
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.
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!
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!
This was awesome. Kenton and his Orchestra have always been the best!!!
Cancion es perfecto.
I see Maynard hitting the high notes, very cool as a young trumpet player with awesome breath control.
Not Maynard.
Dalton Smith on lead trumpet
Sinto que já ouvi essa melodia do canto em outra música. Adorei.
@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
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I saw the 1955 concert at the royal Albert hall.
In the exchange of bands with Ted Heath I believe.
AHHH... Stan the Man... Pride of Wichita Ks...
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
@majorphil Sorry, I just now saw the Bass Sax on a stand by the String Bass player.
Still one of the most exciting and powerful arrangements for big band ever.
God what a SOUND this must have been live in 1962 (esp the brass)! Can anyone name the trumpet and trombone lineup?
I meant no disrespect to Kenton--I was just suggesting an alternative that was highly influenced by Kenton. Please DO NOT refer to a drum & bugle corps as a summer marching band. If you ever get a chance to see a World Class drum corps competition (run by Drum Corps International) you will be truly amazed at the world class musicianship of these incredibly talented young people. I sincerely hope you will take me up on this.
Hey Rick, I made that comment flippantly, but I'm a huge fan of drum corps. I shouldn't have put it the way I did. These are 2 different mediums of playing this epic tune and both do it justice. ;)
LOL
My life goal is to play this song
Whayyy!! He used front facing Mellophones :)
never forget this 88 Madison best horns in the world at that time
Mellophones!!!! I wonder if Stan knew what he started......
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.
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?
Spectacular performance!!! Powerful!! Kind of reminiscent of music at bull ring in Spain I attended!!!
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.
Whew, this band had some talent. It was my understanding that Dee Barton didn't like his trombone playing so he switched to drums. Amazing musician/arranger. Looks like Don Menza playing the tenor solo. Is that Marv Stamm playing the trumpet solo, anyone know? Had a friend I played with at SDSU, Kurt Behrendt, whose dad I believe was in this particular band, Bob Behrendt. Kurt could scream as good or better than anyone in this band, including his dad!
Agree. Pretty sure it's don Menza.
f.y.i. - Keith LaMotte is the lad in the glasses at the far right end of the melophonian ( sp ?) section... sadly... Keith recently passed away in Spokane, WA. He was 82. May he R.I.P.
Would have killed to play bass trombone on his man's ensemble.