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Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center with guest Maynard Ferguson

Recording from NPR's "Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center" series. Taylor interviews trumpet player Maynard Ferguson and Ferguson and the Billy Taylor Trio perform several Jazz tunes in front of a live audience. Also included are the NPR promotional spots from the original program.

Date: 1989

Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds

Creator: Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 & Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens)

Item Type: Sound

Location: 35.299501 -120.657270

[Downbeat Award Ceremony]

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

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton and members of Lester Horton Dance Theater]

Photograph of Stan Kenton posing with members of the Lester Horton Dance Theatre in Hollywood. He is holding up what appears to be an antenna covered in string. The dancers are identified from left to right: Vida Solomon, Carmen De Lavallade, Eleanor Johnson.

Date: 1951

Creator: Capitol Records

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton and Sal Salvador at recording session]

Photograph of Stan Kenton and Sal Salvador at recording session for the Kenton Presents series, produced by Stan for Sal at Capitol Records.

Date: October 9, 1954

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton band at Balboa Bay, CA]

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

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton band at Hollywood Palladium]

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

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton band filming "Artistry in Rhythm"]

Photograph of the Kenton band filming "Artistry in Rhythm" for Universal Pictures in Hollywood, CA.

Date: December 22, 1944

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton celebrating his 40th birthday]

Photograph of Stan Kenton celebrating his 40th birthday at radio station KSFO in San Francisco, CA. He is surrounded by people including the woman third from left (in plaid skirt) identified as band singer Jerri Winters.

Date: February 19, 1952

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton Orchestra at Club Oasis]

Photographs of Kenton Orchestra at Club Oasis in Los Angeles, CA. Proof sheet with 12 images includes: #194-A Lennie Niehaus, #194-B Bob Fitzpatrick, #194-J Don Bagley, #194-K Jeri Winters, #194-L Ralph Blaze.

Date: 1952-02-25/1952-03-09

Item Type: Photograph

[Kenton recording session]

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

Item Type: Photograph

[Original Kenton band at Hollywood Palladium]

Photograph of the original Kenton band performing at the Palladium in Hollywood.

Date: 1941-11-25/1941-12-31

Creator: General Amusement Corporation

Item Type: Photograph

[Original Kenton band at Rendezvous Ballroom, Balboa Bay, CA]

Photograph of the original Kenton band at the Rendezvous Ballroom at Balboa. Singer Kay Gregory is at the microphone.

Date: 1941-06/1941-07

Creator: Rumsey, Howard

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 33.6016283 -117.9028128

[Original Kenton sax section at Rendezvous Ballroom, Balboa Bay, CA]

Photograph of the original Kenton sax section at Rendezvous Ballroom at Balboa, CA. From left to right: Ted Romersa, Hollis Bridwell, Jack Ordean, Red Dorris, Bob Gioga.

Date: 1941-06/1941-07

Creator: Rumsey, Howard

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Stan Kenton]

Sheet of eleven portraits of Stan Kenton (there is an empty space for a twelfth photograph). In the portraits, Kenton is standing and seated in various poses on stools. The photographs have different lighting and a second man is pictured with Kenton in one of the images.

Date: unknown