Stan Levey - The Stan Kenton Years

[@susannahsvoice]

I loved watching this video. Stan Kenton was my grandfather and it always warms my heart to hear about him from his band members.

[@gibsondrummer]

The respect is evident in the legacy of the music IE: When Stan Levey says “we went to Europe and tore it up “

[@davidwhite2949]

Cool, he was an amazing drummer🙂

[@brianratekin6821]

Stan Kenton's music was a big part of my teenage/college years. He was a legend, but would come to colleges and do workshops with us kids and would publish his music so we high school and college kids could not only play them but get challenged to be better musicians. We wore out his records. A highlight of that time was, he would bring his band to Disneyland in the Carnation Plaza every year, and we could sit ten feet in front of those monster musicians and get literally blown away. When I was a freshman in high school, he was one of the judges at a jazz festival. When he smiled at us as we played, I was over the moon.

[@susannahsvoice]

@@brianratekin6821 What a wonderful memory, Brian, thank you for sharing it here!

[@milesdavis2377]

Your grandfather has brought much joy to my life ❤️

[@chuckmclaughlin9490]

Used to listen to Stan and his early band in the '40's in Balboa, Ca. before they became famous. Laid back and exciting nights listening to them jam. Later, in the fifties, I went to see him play in Dallas, Texas or Fort Worth, can't remember which. During a break Stan was sitting alone on the stage at the piano just fooling around on the keys and I went up to the bandstand and called out his name. He turned around and I proceeded to tell him about those early days in Balboa and he said that those were the happiest times of his life! A really nice dude.

[@jazzrecordingsandarchives9198]

If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you? That’s an amazing story.

[@paulgentile1024]

Stan Levey an incredibly underrated drummer

[@farshimelt]

Not really. He's well known and revered among drummers.

[@stixkubwa]

A very impressive summation of that part of the Kenton era. Very respectful and appreciation comments from Stan Levey, Bill Holman and others.

[@bobkaiser5704]

Susannah, please know there are yet still so many of us of a much later vintage who still love and adore your grandfather and his music. See Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra, now the Neophonic Jazz Orchestra, of Madison, WI, on KZbin.

[@susannahsvoice]

Thank you, Bob!

[@sweetassugar2076]

@@susannahsvoice hi susannah 😃

[@SusuKenton]

@@sweetassugar2076 Hi!

[@MrBENCADE]

Great Band love the insights.

[@jamesconnors5653]

Thank you.

[@evelynkeyes8256]

Please share more...so well done!

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Thank you. Please check out my other Stan Levey videos on my TubeworksVideo KZbin channel: kzbin.info

[@joaoalfredo2848]

A ORQUESTRA DE STAN KENTON sempre foi integrada por músicos de altíssimo talento. Uma das melhores em um tempo de maravilhosas orquestras. THIS IS AN ORCHESTRA !

[@rodmact6548]

In that Key Moments scroll, you've got Jack Sheldon's name under Richie Kamuka's smiling face! LOL! Anyway, great video, love it! I was just entering high school - woulda been 14 - when this version of Kenton's band was touring and recording. Thanks for the video!

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Thank you for the accolades but could you please indicate the time number readout where you see this occurrence happen because I don't see this error at all. I see Jack Sheldon's name under the correct visual of him speaking.

[@rodmact6548]

@@TubeworksVideoChannel i said in the time links called Key Moments below your remarks and stuff, I don't mean in the video. And these Key Moment time links aren't shown on iPads and Phones, I don't think anyway. I don't see them on my iPad but I do on my PC. It's a horizontal scrolling row of pix of people with their corresponding times to appear in the video. It may be something created automatically? I don't know. But there's a pic of Richie with Jack's name. No biggie and who cares. Great video.

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

@@rodmact6548 This is something new, I didn't even know that KZbin was doing these "Key Moments" so thanks for pointing this out. This is done automatically and sometimes their "Key Moment" is out of sync with the correct visual that should appear.

[@rodmact6548]

@@TubeworksVideoChannel yup. Too bad they can't get it right.

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

There are some rare limited brand new shrink- wrapped copies of the DVD "Stan Levey The Original Original" which was the original source for this and my other Stan Levey KZbin videos available here: www.ebay.com/itm/Stan-Levey-Original-Original-DVD-Multiple-Formats-Color-Dolby-NTSC-RARE/373300754743 This review of the DVD by Jack Bowers appeared in All About Jazz magazine: www.allaboutjazz.com/stan-levey-the-original-original-stan-levey-by-jack-bowers.php?width=375

[@Qboro66]

JACK SHELDON! 🎵Conjunction Junction, what's your function?🎵

[@joeybonin7691]

Yep, that's the guy.

[@evelynkeyes8256]

Please share more of this series!

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Please check out my new video "Stan Levey - The Beginnings of Bebop."

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

I love Richie Kamuca.

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Stan did too.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@TubeworksVideoChannel I always knew the name Stan Levey. Watching your channel shows what a great man he was. My dad was a drummer. Born the same year as Stan. Dad had ALL the records. Kenton, Woody, Count. He knew some great players, Konitz, Phil Woods, Carmen Leggio, and a ton of cats in New York. He lived his life entirely in Greenwich Village. But he lost his vision in the mid-60s. Hard to find work. He ran the music at a gin joint on W.23rd St 1970-72. Was given a budget $25-50. He got Al Cohn one weekend for $25 or $35. He would let me play the last set. I was 10 and went up to Bobby Jones and asked if I could borrow his clarinet. "Sure, kid, sure." One time the bar tender got mad at my dad for bringing me and my sister in and basically told him to leave. He called Joe Morello. "Hey, Joe. I'm having a problem with Don. Can you fill in for me?" Dad played the first set and we got into the cab Joe took down to the place. My dad was right up there with the top eschelon but never got a break. Died in 1982. Didn't help that he sued the union with a few other guys in the early 60s.

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

@@rudolphguarnacci197 Interesting story I know that Stan would have loved it! Thank you for sharing.

[@angelalevey9981]

So do I, he was godfather to our sons@@TubeworksVideoChannel

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Check out the authorized biography about Stan's life entitled "Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight" by Frank R. Hayde on Amazon at this link: www.amazon.com/Stan-Levey-Heavyweight-Frank-Hayde/dp/1595800867

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

Stan Levey with the Stan Kenton Orchestra - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4XQg56brtOtnNU

[@Braglemaster123]

Please post some Maynard Ferguson and Stan 🙏🙏

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

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[@sashakingcrimson187]

💿💿💿💿

[@martindalmasi5340]

Zoot!!!!!

[@larryshaver3568]

i heard that he[Stan] suffered a skull injury

[@TubeworksVideoChannel]

(From Wikipedia) Kenton had two serious accidental falls, one in the early 1970s and one in the autumn of 1977 while on tour in Reading, Pennsylvania. The second fall was very serious as he fractured his skull. The last two years of his life became far more physically challenging for Kenton from the effects of the two accidents.

[@alansenzaki4148]

So white in those days.

[@gostrum1]

You haven’t got a clue

[@tedpowers2045]

My Father in law was a big fan. Was quite segregated in the day. Kenton I’m not sure pursued segregation. Probably more of a group thing on who you knew in the business. The Bebop and small groups were more integrated. Jazz has always been about the music not the color of your skin. I’m sure the Big Bands were segregated due to the promoters and venue owners as Jim Crow was alive and flourishing in those days

[@tedpowers2045]

To add to my comment from my Father in Law. He attended concerts by bands with black artists mixed with whites He liked and listened to black and white artists. I feel the jazz and rock and roll did much to integrate the races.

[@farshimelt]

A lot of the segregation was self imposed. Black players had no interest in playing Kenton's music. Their roots were in Basie and Ellington, Billy Eckstein's big band, Dizzy Gillespie and many white players were not up to that standard so they didn't play in black bands. Of course they were other reasons. At one point, Lucky Thompson played with Kenton but his sound didn't really fit. You can't look at the past with today's eyes and expect to find todays image.