Liu, Yvonne (yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:16:56 -0500
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> From: peter stuart kohman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 5:11 PM
> To: Liu, Yvonne
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> Stan Kenton was a big bandleader most popular in the early 50's- pre
> Rock'n'Roll. He was celebrated at the time for adding "Modern" harmonies
> to
> the bigband palette- Which translates as using some Boppish tonalities
> without
> actually playing bop. His stuff is pretty white, but as commercial bigband
> stuff of that era goes it's not bad-He used good players and it still
> swung.
> He sounds kinda "Hollywood" to modern ears 'cause a lot of '50's
> soundtrack
> composers took off from his stuff. I'm not an expert on this type-era
> Jazz, I
> go more for earlier and later stuff. If you want I'll do some research,
> this
> is just off my 'ed. Leonard Cohen was/is a Canadian novelist-songwriter
> who
> surfaced in the '60's and is still around- He was one of those guys who
> got
> signed up in Dylan's wake and made some very literate murky-sounding
> albums
> for Columbia in the mid-late '60's. He's kinda a cult figure and people,
> especially female folky types feel very existential when they do his
> songs-
> it's dress in black, smoke a lot and read Sartre music. His earlier stuff
> is
> reccomended.There's a cool documentary on him by Canadian Broadcasting Co.
> from about 1964- before his music thing started thats SOO early 60's- I
> forget
> the title! Hope this stuff helps.
>
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