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The front cover is cool too.  Like he's channeling Lon Chaney.     

Rhino Handmade and Hip-o Select did good work a couple decades ago,

Some moth thoughts about Stan and Holman. The practical problem for me with Kenton Items at that time was that some of his best & swinging recordings as New concepts.... / Modern Concepts / Plays the music of Russo & Holman a.o on the Capitol label were hard to get  In Germany when I started  collecting his band in the late 1960s. Holmans arranging was not Stans favorite kind so we have not much with the Kenton band itself. Great luck was -after he had parted with Capitol - founding his new label Creative World and reissueing nearly his com- plete Capitol  issues (however not with the original covers) from a sales bureau from the Netherlands. The Bill Holman arrangements are my favorites because I have  nearly every Holman Item under Bill's name. In addition to that Holman & Mel Lewis had a great  collaboration with the WDR radio bigband from Cologne in the 1980s. The Radioband did not have a regular drummer at that time  so very often Mel Lewis came over to Cologne to rehearsh and perform  with Bill directing his suites and compositions which were tranmitteed via FM radio in 1a quality. Have recorded many of them and made my privat CDrs. The station had offered a 'radio recorder software' for interested listeners.  Making copies for private use was officially allowed. Here are some cover prints with a foto which mada my late fried W. Weiss who hat visited every rehershal  and shot fotos. This collaboration was extended to some other radiostations here in Germany Its not Kenton music per se however. https://up.picr.de/50570533rv.jpg https://up.picr.de/50570532mu.jpg        

Siegfried Kessler was such a great pianist. I loved his playing from the first moment on. I heard him with Archie Shepp for example.  It´s strange that sometimes I read or hear that music lovers even today call that "Avantgarde" or say it´s to heavy stuff for them. For me it isn´t even an "electric album"......well the keyboards, thats all. But it still has so much the old conception of theme-solos-theme and it is not much more advanced than "In a Silent Way".  So it´s hard for me to follow those who tell me they find it "weird" or "far out" or who knows what. I had heard Miles in 1973 with Liebman, Reggie Lukas, Pete Cosey, Mike Henderson, Al Foster and Mtume, that was my first Miles, and I must admit when people told me to buy Bitches Brew cause it´s the first "electric album" of Miles, I was almost disapointed first....imagine, Aghartha, Dark Magus, Pangeea still were not even recorded ! 

Bill Heid - Dark Secrets (Savant) I love the back cover photo.