Stan Kenton
piano, bandleader
Pianist and big-band leader of the 1940s and 1950s; Barry names his band among those people went to dance halls to hear when he was young.
- mentions
- 1
- recordings
- 1
- Barry speaking
- 1
What Barry says
In his own words
That’s the only way I learned about jazz was dancing. I know a lot of you never heard of dancing to jazz... When we went to [hear] Stan Kenton, we went to a dance hall
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Feeling the ‘and’
- 1:12
Going to hear Kenton meant going to a dance hall, as for Bird, Ellington, Basie and Dizzy.
In the interviews and notes
De Lima quotes Barry’s memory of hearing Kenton, Ellington, Basie, Bird and Dizzy in dance halls, where people danced to the music. He files it under his theme of ‘interrelated arts’, the ties between playing jazz, dancing, singing and movement, with dancing as the sub-theme.
Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶791Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶793Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶794
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.