Prom 71: Tribute to Stan Kenton – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonJazz hasn't featured much in the Proms this year, but by staging a centenary tribute to Stan Kenton's big-band music of the 1940s and 50s, the organisers were unleashing enough roaring noise to stand in for half a dozen other gigs. Kenton died in 1979, but his prolific output, sophisticated scores and futuristic vision of a genre-bending "progressive music" still excite fans. The BBC Big Band, led by Jiggs Whigham with the classy Claire Martin on vocals, did Kenton's me...

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