Today is the birthday of progressive jazz piano player, composer/arranger and bandleader Stan Kenton (1911-1979). We mark the occasion in timely fashion with his band’s swinging horn-heavy 1961 version of “God, Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” — nothing like making a sweet hymn sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s cop show…but we like it! To find out […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:26PM on December 15, 2013