Stan Kenton - Cuban Fire! flac album

Album · 1959 · 12 Songs. Cuban Fire Stan Kenton. Listen on Apple Music.

The Kenton orchestra was expanded to 27 pieces for these dates including six percussionists, two French horns and six trumpets. While I have only recently become a Stan Kenton fan, I would recommend this album to ANYONE who appreciates jazz. It combines the hard-hitting brass that was Kenton's signature with the Latin rhythms (mentioned above) that swing nicely.

This was Stan Kenton’s big band’s first full-length recording of Afro-Cuban-styled music. The LP charted for four weeks in Billboard starting on September 15, 1956, peaking at The concept of the original 1956 recording centers on the Cuban Fire! suite Kenton had commissioned from composer Johnny Richards. The 1991 CD re-issue is augmented with one extra track from the 1956 sessions and five cuts recorded four years later by the first of Kenton’s mellophonium orchestras. This CD contains one of the classic Stan Kenton albums, a six-part suite composed and arranged by Johnny Richards.

Duration: 54:06 Year: 1991. Dean Martin - The Dean Martin Christmas Album. Michel Legrand - Big Band. Michel Legrand - Le Jazz Grand. With such soloists as tenor-great Lucky Thompson (on "Fuego Cubano,") trombonist Carl Fontana, altoist Lennie Niehaus, Bill Perkins on tenor and trumpeters Sam Noto and Vinnie Tanno, and plenty of raging ensembles, this is one of Stan Kenton's more memorable concept albums of the 1950s.

This was Stan Kenton's big band's first full-length recording of Afro-Cuban-styled music.

Fuego Cubano (Cuban Fire). Album: Cuban Fire, 1991.