Stan Kenton has been played on NTS in shows including Open Hand Real Flames , featured first on 14 November 2016. Songs played include Lonesome Train, Inner Crisis and You Stepped Out Of A Dream.

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 August 25, 1979) led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator.

Origins

Stan Kenton was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised first in Colorado and then in California. He learned piano as a child, and while still a teenager toured with various bands. In June 1941 he formed his own band, which developed…