Stan Kenton in Holland

[Durium]

One of the first great American jazz musicians I must have seen in concert was Stan Kenton. His band was scheduled in 1973 for a concert at the Rotterdam Doelen and I remember I only could affort one of the cheaper seats, behind the band on the balcony. I remember the massive sound and the easy way Stan Kenton directed the band. Also Peter Varenhorst was part of the audience. For him it was the second times he heard the Stan Kenton band. In 1953, twenty years before the Rotterdam concert, he joined a Kenton concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and loved to share with us his remembrances.

Recollections of Stan Kenton in Holland (1953 and 1973)

Durium

[JSngry]

This is one eerie photo...