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| | Stan Kenton Biography |
 | | In 1965 Stan decided to showcase his more adventuresome concert music in the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, essentially a slightly expanded big band, with horns (real French horns: the mellophoniums were nearly impossible to play in tune) and lots of reed doubling. |
 | | It's significant that Stan's music is found in the jazz section, and not the "big band" section of most record shops even today. |
 | | As always, Stan was seeking out new talent, most notably Hank Levy, who had written for Don Ellis, and Alan Yankee, though some of us treasure the charts that long-time Kenton arrangers Dee Barton, Willie Maiden, Bill Holman, and Ken Hanna wrote for this band. |
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