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Mopro Records M 106 - Blue Wisp Big Band " Live At Carmelo's" - rec. 1984 - Engineer: Jim Mooney

Aleluya Records AR - 17000 (FSR-690 1989) - Enrique Villegas "Tributo A Jerome Kern" - rec. 1977 -

Musicmasters Digital CIJD 20126z/27X - Benny Carter American Jazz Orchestra " Central City Sketches" - rec. 1987 - Engineer: Gegory K. Squires

Privat Production KSCD 0900 - Herb Geller " Birthday Party At NDR's Rolf Liebermann Hall - rec. 2008

The WDR Big Band is one of the top european big band . Its a radion employed orchestra and has good financial sources for the members. Have followed the weekly radio broadcasts from the early 1980s on and have about several hundred files from their FM radio concerts with great US and european soloists. The band had no regular drummer during the 1980s so there was a regular collaboration for example with Mel Lews (he is quoted: the WDR BB is my second orchestra). In addition Bill Holman preferred to present his own compositions and suites the first time for an public auditorium here in Cologne at various places rather than in the US. Many famous US stars were featured in these public concerts. Also the leaders for these public concerts changed very often. Bill Holman was one of them. Radio WDR had offered a software "radiorecorder" for the fans of the band to record these events for free and private use (burn your own CDrs, what i did also. Here is an example : https://up.picr.de/50579005at.jpg

Time Music ULS-1801-V (Japan) Sonny Clarke Trio - rec. 1960 - and later this one Somerset SF- FSR reissue - Pete Candoli Septet "Blues, When Your Lover Has Gone" - rec. 1961 - Audio: Bill Putnam

Ah yes. Have here 2 single RCA CDs. Looks like the same program

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Time Music ULS-1801-V / Overseas Records (Japan) Sonny Clarke Trio - rec. 1960 -

💗 Cd or vinyl? Finesse Records FW 37488 - Bob Brookmeyer " "Through A Looking Glass" - rec. 1981 - Engineer: Frank Laico

Some moth thoughts about Stan and Holman. The practical problem for me with Kenton Items at that time was that some of his best & swinging recordings as New concepts.... / Modern Concepts / Plays the music of Russo & Holman a.o on the Capitol label were hard to get In Germany when I started collecting his band in the late 1960s. Holmans arranging was not Stans favorite kind so we have not much with the Kenton band itself. Great luck was -after he had parted with Capitol - founding his new label Creative World and reissueing nearly his com- plete Capitol issues (however not with the original covers) from a sales bureau from the Netherlands. The Bill Holman arrangements are my favorites because I have nearly every Holman Item under Bill's name. In addition to that Holman & Mel Lewis had a great collaboration with the WDR radio bigband from Cologne in the 1980s. The Radioband did not have a regular drummer at that time so very often Mel Lewis came over to Cologne to rehearsh and perform with Bill directing his suites and compositions which were tranmitteed via FM radio in 1a quality. Have recorded many of them and made my privat CDrs. The station had offered a 'radio recorder software' for interested listeners. Making copies for private use was officially allowed. Here are some cover prints with a foto which mada my late fried W. Weiss who hat visited every rehershal and shot fotos. This collaboration was extended to some other radiostations here in Germany Its not Kenton music per se however. https://up.picr.de/50570533rv.jpg https://up.picr.de/50570532mu.jpg

Motif ML 502 / V.S.O.P. 46 (1986) - Max Albright Octet " Mood For Max" - rec. 1956 also on Sonet label Sweden

Elektra Musician MUS K 52388 - Clifford Brown / Max Roach " Pure Genius" Vol. One" - rec. 1956

Do agree with you for the 'Mellophonium band'. From this time on Stan lost me as a collector. Dont like that "muddy" sound.

Probably the submitter has only this one. I am a Kenton fan but have also this one among many other Items ;-]]