Kenton, Stan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Maynard Ferguson: The Unforgettable Real Story

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jazz Scene USA

  1962, role: actor , character name: Himself - Bandleader
• Play in Full Screen The Wedding in Monaco

  1956, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Happy New Year

  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Music 55

  1955, role: actor , character name: Host
• Play in Full Screen Spotlight No. 5

  1954, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Schlagerparade

  1953, role: actor , character name: Himself, and his Orchestra
• Play in Full Screen Rhythm Masters

  1949, role: actor , character name: Orchestra Leader
• Play in Full Screen Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

  1947, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Let's Make Rhythm

  1947, role: actor , character name: Orchestra Leader
• Play in Full Screen Talk About a Lady

  1946, role: actor , character name: Band Leader
• Play in Full Screen Tampico

  1945, role: actor , character name: Bandleader
• Play in Full Screen This Love of Mine

  1944, role: actor , character name: Band Leader
• Play in Full Screen Artistry in Rhythm

  1944, role: actor , character name: Bandleader

Famous quotes by Stan Kenton:

"Drew would run through a brick wall for (Temples). When he asked him to put his hand down, he didn't hesitate. I think it's the reason why he's playing college football, because he put his hand down."

"Country and Western music? It's contrived calculated, commercial music. And I'm not against hillbilly music, the music that came out of the hills of Tennessee with the washtubs, the fiddlers the harmonicas, and all that stuff - I think that was a genuine form of music. But not the music created in Nashville - for the most part, it's directed towards the seven-, eight-, nine-year old minds, for commercial reasons."

"Nostalgia's the most commercial commodity there is today; I believe it's true all over the world."

"Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free."

"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band . . . to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."

"I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time."

"If you ask any 10 people on the street if they have ever heard of Stan Kenton," he once said, "only a couple of them will say, 'yes.' We have to try to get the other 8. And the only way I can see to do it is to make myself a personality and take my band along."

"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."

Stan Kenton

Born: 1911-12-15

Died: 1979-08-25