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Stan Kenton.

Stan Kenton (1911-1979), showed from an early passion for jazz. His models were, pianist, and saxophonist Earl Hines, Benny Carter, a great arranger of the swing era. Since 1933, the year he began working professionally until 1940, he went wandering in various jazz bands in different American states, mainly in the big band standing de Vido Muso, a tenor sax player of proven quality.
When he had the opportunity to lead his own group, had the courage to embrace a white jazz singer called, Anita O'Day, which won an impressive success, to the point of becoming the best big band of his era white at the level even of the great Woody Herman. Kenton, in front of his orchestra, he tried to merge the European classical music and jazz tradition. That effort and great job, was between 1947 and 1956, many interesting records of unquestionable taste and jazzy, and also brought to light, a pair of white singers extraordinary: the aforementioned, Anita O'Day and soon to replace , the magnificent, June Christy.
During this period he recorded for Capitol, the corpus most interesting musical of his career picked up in several LP's and collected in a box of four compact reissued by Capitol Records in 1994, his "alter ego" was the arranger, Pete Rugolo, a musician Special born in Sicily and educated in the United States, which met Kenton, a role analogous to that made, with Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn. Since 1947, the music of Stan Kenton, there was everything from debussiano impressionism, to expressionism of Stravinsky, from the Wagnerian bombast and even Latin rhythms and sounds of South American cone.
In 1953, Kenton and his band traveled to Europe and although the reception in Paris was extraordinary, the apotheosis of the orchestra took place in Dublin, where there were even public demonstrations of their fans on the streets Dubliners. In 1958, after two or three years with the orchestra languished, a concert at the "Rendez Vous Ballroom in the Californian town of Balboa Beach, the band recovered to the levels of the days of the big hits. Kenton again seemed to catch up, but the defection of some of his best solo, made this splendor was short-lived.
For nearly twenty years more, Kenton continue experimenting and testing with lab-band (in formed to musicians often recent graduates of the University), the disparate sounds, but a skull fracture he departed from the jazz, died on August 25, 1979. On their desks passed the cream of the jazz of the American West Coast: Conte Candoli, Art Pepper, Zoots Zims, Shelly Manne, Mel Lewis, Bud Shand etc, etc.
Stan Kenton Today, with the perspective that gives the time, is given the ability to generate creative spaces, creator of new sounds and have been a charismatic bandleader and inventive.