City of Glass: Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger

by Stan Kenton

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This CD compilation collects the astonishingly complex and controversial early-1950s studio recordings between bandleader Stan Kenton and avant-garde composer Bob Graettinger. 'City of Glass' utilized a massive orchestra to perform fiercely dissonant, nearly atonal jazz that completely abandoned traditional swing mechanics in favor of European modern classical theory. The recordings remain some of the most polarizing, intellectually rigorous, and conceptually terrifying big band music ever committed to tape.

Genres

  • Third Stream
  • Progressive Big Band
  • Experimental Big Band

Tracklist

  1. Thermopylae
  2. Everything Happens To Me
  3. Incident In Jazz
  4. House Of Strings
  5. A Horn
  6. Modern Opus
  7. A Cello
  8. You Go To My Head
  9. A Trumpet
  10. An Orchestra
  11. A Thought
  12. Some Saxophones