This collector's CD is a bit unusual for it features
Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra without its string section. Actually the big band mostly sticks to its repertoire of the 1940s on these radio broadcasts, playing fairly straightahead charts that give such players as trumpeters
Maynard Ferguson and
Shorty Rogers, altoists
Art Pepper and
Bud Shank, tenor-saxophonist
Bob Cooper and trombonist
Milt Bernhart an opportunity to be featured. Fans of
Stan Kenton's earlier groups will find these updated and often re-arranged versions of such songs as "Peanut Vendor," "Eager Beaver," "Southern Scandal," "Intermission Riff" and "Round Robin" quite interesting.