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[Downbeat Award Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of the Progressive Jazz Orchestra at Downbeat Award ceremony. June Christy (with husband Bob Cooper) is presented the Downbeat Award by the magazine's West Coast editor Charles Emge. Center photos: Mexican singer Paco who also performed on this live KLAC telecast at the Hollywood Palladium.
Date: February 21, 1951
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Kenton recording session]

Description: Photographs of various rehearsal shots from a recording session at Capitol Records, Hollywood. Proof sheet with 12 images includes: Stan with Bill Russo, George Roberts, Keith Moon, Ernie Royal and Capitol's producer Lee Gillette.
Date: February 11, 1953
Creator: Howard, Gene
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Kenton band at Hollywood Palladium]

Description: Photograph of the Stan Kenton band performing at the Palladium in Hollywood. Kenton is seated at a piano, looking over his shoulder; the band members are standing in a semi-circle around the piano, holding various instruments.
Date: December 9, 1945
Creator: Mihn, Charlie
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Kenton band at Balboa Bay, CA]

Description: Photograph of the Kenton band cruising in a boat at Balboa Bay, CA. According to Fernando Ortiz de Urbina in 2019, personnel are identified as follows: Back row: Ed Badgley, Art Pepper, Laurindo Almeida, Pete Rugolo; fifth row: Harry Betts, unidentified, Chico Alvarez, unidentified; fourth row: Ray Wetzel, Parke Groate (tentatively), unidentified, Jack Constanzo; third row: Harry Forbes, Conte Candoli, Bart Varsalona, Buddy Childers, Eddie Safranski; second row: Warner Weidler , George Weidler,… more
Date: July 1948
Creator: Howard, Gene
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Stan Kenton with Officers]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton at the Civic Auditorium on Grove St. with two men, including Chief Warrant Officer Nathan A. [Cammack], leader of the Sixth Army Band in Presidio, San Francisco. Warrant Officer Jr. Grade Joseph H. [Trethewey] is standing to the left of Mr. Kenton.
Date: 1952
Creator: McDonald, PFC M.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Stan Kenton and group of unidentified men

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton and group of unidentified men. Kenton is leaning over a grand piano and appears to be signing an autograph or writing something for a young man who is with him next to the piano. The other men are standing in a semi-circle, watching, including one man near the foreground who has a camera. There are drums and a microphone visible in the foreground and they appear to be on a stage with curtains and ropes visible behind the men.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bayles, Francis
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Stan Kenton and Andy Mansfield]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton being presented Gold Record award by DJ/host Andy Mansfield on KFI radio show in Hollywood, California. Kenton and Mansfield are shaking hands and Kenton is holding a framed record. To the left of the photo, there is a microphone with the initials "KFI."
Date: June 26, 1954
Creator: Stanart Photo
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Stan Kenton at Earl Carroll's Theatre]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton with chorus girls at Earl Carroll's Theatre in Hollywood. Kenton is seating next to an upright piano and the girls are gathered around him; one of the girls has her foot on his lap. On the back: Stan and Erroll [sic] Carroll showgirls; Stan conducted orchestra; taken sometime in early '40's.
Date: November 1945
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Stan Kenton at Earl Carroll's Theatre]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton with chorus girls at Earl Carroll's Theatre in Hollywood. They are seated on a flight of stairs, with Kenton in the center surrounded by the girls. On the back: Stan when he was conducting band at Erroll [sic] Carroll's nightclub in Hollywood; sometime in early '40's.
Date: November 1945
Creator: Mihn, Charlie
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Sheet of Stan Kenton Photographs]

Description: Sheet of twelve portraits of Stan Kenton. In several of the photographs, Kenton is wearing straw hats and seated on the floor; in others, he is posing with a stool. A second person is partially visible in one of the images.
Date: unknown
Creator: Sid Avery & Associates
Partner: UNT Music Library
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