Kenton/Wagner?

[ghost of miles]

I suppose it had to have happened...from Space Age Pop Music:

Soon after that, he followed up with an even bigger musical belly flop, the dreaded Kenton/Wagner, which featured a 25-piece group tackling Johnny Richards arrangements of themes from Richard Wagner's operas, including "Ride of the Valkyries." To a jazz fan, this is one of the most execrable recordings in the archives. To space age pop fans, of course, its morbid allure is almost irresistable, although it's the kind of record you love to have in your collection but keep far away from the turntable.

Good Lord.

[JSngry]

Kenton/Wagner/Richards

They say these type things come in threes...

[JSngry]

Have you ever heard the album?

It's....uh....loud.

[ghost of miles]

Haven't heard it, but I think I've seen it...

[Claude]

Be sure to get the superior MFSL pressing

[HolyStitt]

Be sure to get the superior MFSL pressing

I found a sealed copy of the MFSL at an estate sale.

When I sold it on eBay it was still sealed.

[B. Clugston]

Wasn't Kenton Wagner's stage name?

[ghost of miles]

Kenton Wagner.

Sounds like the name of the Bionic Composer.

[alocispepraluger102]

i own the vinyl and played it a couple times

[couw]

some passages are dead funny really, like the latin version of the Walküre.

heheheh.

somehow I found a second hand copy very cheap and very unplayed.

[porcy62]

I am with Woody Allen on this:

I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Edited January 23, 2007 by porcy62

[John Tapscott]

some passages are dead funny really, like the latin version of the Walküre.

heheheh.

somehow I found a second hand copy very cheap and very unplayed.

I enjoy many Kenton albums, but this one is quite dreadful, really. Beautifully played and recorded, though, and Scott Yanow gives it 4.5 stars on amg, so what do I know?!

[alocispepraluger102]

some passages are dead funny really, like the latin version of the Walküre.

heheheh.

somehow I found a second hand copy very cheap and very unplayed.

I enjoy many Kenton albums, but this one is quite dreadful, really. Beautifully played and recorded, though, and Scott Yanow gives it 4.5 stars on amg, so what do I know?!

...was indeed beautifully played and recorded.

how would we react if ellington or andrew hill did a wagner recording?

[garthsj]

some passages are dead funny really, like the latin version of the Walküre.

heheheh.

somehow I found a second hand copy very cheap and very unplayed.

I enjoy many Kenton albums, but this one is quite dreadful, really. Beautifully played and recorded, though, and Scott Yanow gives it 4.5 stars on amg, so what do I know?!

Actually, I quite like this album ... the only problem is that I usually listen to it when I am eating take-out Chinese food, and then two hours later I am hungry for POWER!

[alocispepraluger102]

i certainly prefer it to his 'national anthems of the world,' and much of the neophonic stuff.

[Chuck Nessa]

It is an insult to Wagner. In some camps, pretty hard to do.

[alocispepraluger102]

It is an insult to Wagner. In some camps, pretty hard to do.

yes , but stan and richard share a remarkable pompousity.