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.
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