Stan Kenton

Work : None | Begin Major Project 1940 (Spent two months writing arrangements for own band) | Work : None | Contracts, agreements 1944 (Hired top jazz vocalist Anita O'Day) | Social : None | Joined group 1950 (Created and joined the Innovations Orchestra) | Social : None | 00 midnight in Los Angeles, CA (Created and joined the Neophonic Orchestra) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Stroke (Fatal) | Family : Childhood | Disadvantaged (Deadbeat dad left family) | Family : Childhood | Family large (Five kids) | Family : Childhood | Parent, Single or Step (Dad gone) | Family : Relationship | Number of Divorces (Two) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (Three) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (Three) | Lifestyle : Work | Work in team/ Tandem (Stan Kenton Orchestra, high school band, others) | Vocation : Education | Teacher (Jazz clinics at universities) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Composer/ Arranger | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Conductor (Band leader) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Group/ Duo (Stan Kenton Orchestra) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Instrumentalist (Piano) | Notable : Awards | Vocational award (Look Magazine Band of the Year) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession