LEGENDS OF JAZZ CONCERT
Tribute to Stan Kenton with Bob Curnow

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7 pm
Garvin Theatre, SBCC West Campus
Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Tickets available @ Garvin Box Office 965-5935

Legendary composer and arranger Bob Curnow will join the award winning Lunch Break Band and Isaac Jenkins’ incomparable all-pro Monday Madness Band in a tribute to Stan Kenton.

Bob Curnow started his professional career as a trombonist with The Stan Kenton Orchestra, touring all of the United States, Great Britain, Scotland and Wales (1963) and a member of the last "Mellophonium Band". In 1973, Bob began a four-year stint as A&R Director, arranger, composer, record producer and general manager for Kenton's Creative World Records, where he produced over 30 albums for Kenton, and his arrangements and compositions can be heard on six Kenton albums. Bob's publishing company, Sierra Music, is the exclusive publisher of the Stan Kenton Orchestra Library, along with the music of many other great jazz artists/composers such as Bill Holman, Buddy Rich, Oliver Nelson, Tommy Newsom, Doc Severinson, Don Sebesky, and many, many others.

His more recent activities include conducting and arranging the widely-acclaimed big-band recording of Pat Metheny music with his L.A. Big Band. The CD The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays has received rave reviews from all over the world. Released on the MAMA Records label, it is the best selling CD in their history. Bob's second CD Towednack features the music of the SWR Big Band from Germany.

More info on the SBCC concert series can be found here

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More "first light" images from STEREO can be found here.

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