The Innovations Orchestra


The Innovations Orchestra is a compilation album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton's "Innovations" Orchestra featuring performances recorded in 1950 and 1951. The CD includes the albums Innovations in Modern Music and Stan Kenton Presents and was released by Capitol in 1997.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow observed, "The music was quite uncommercial, complex, and advanced with the emphasis on the arrangements rather than the soloists". In All About Jazz William Grim wrote, "The Innovations Orchestra was quite capable of swinging and it did much of the time. But it was also capable of producing music of an extraordinarily high quality that makes one think in addition to making one's toes tap".

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Mirage" – 4:59
  2. "Conflict" – 4:27
  3. "Solitaire" – 4:17
  4. "Soliloquy" – 4:33
  5. "Theme for Sunday" – 5:04
  6. "Amazonia" – 4:39
  7. "The Lonesome Road" – 4:30
  8. "Trajectories" – 3:34
  9. "Incident in Jazz" – 3:31
  10. "Cuban Episode" – 4:46
  11. "Evening in Pakistan" – 3:44
  12. "Salute" – 3:35
  13. "Mardi Gras" – 3:07
  14. "In Veradero" – 4:18
  15. "Jolly Rogers" – 2:40
  16. "Blues in Riff" – 2:53
Disc two
  1. "Cello-logy" – 4:35
  2. "Art Pepper" – 5:19
  3. "Halls of Brass" – 5:01
  4. "Maynard Ferguson" – 4:18
  5. "Shelly Manne" – 4:30
  6. "June Christy" – 4:08
  7. "House of Strings" – 4:18
  8. "Round Robin" – 2:41
  9. "Coop's Solo" – 3:15
  10. "Sambo" – 2:38
  11. "Ennui" – 3:39
  12. "Samana" – 3:51
  13. "Coop's Solo" – 3:41
  14. "Salute" – 4:04
Recorded at Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA on February 3, 1950, February 4, 1950, February 5, 1950, May 18, 1950, June 5, 1950 August 21, 1950, August 24, 1950, September 12, 1950, and September 19, 1951 ; and at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York on October 14, 1951

Personnel