Projected Personnel for the 2022 Spring Tour of the SKLO, Directed by Mike Vax:
Saxophone and Flute: Kim Richmond* • Rick Condit* • Joel Kaye* • Gary Anderson • Philip Hilger • Woody Witt • Bruce Bohnstengel (on selected dates)
Trombone: Scott Whitfield • Dale Devoe* • Dave Keim* • Kenny Shroyer* • Rich Bullock
Trumpet: Mike Vax* • Dennis Noday* • John Harner* • Paul Von Adam* • Jonathan Dane
Piano: David Kane
Bass: Chris Symer
Drums: C.E. Askew
Vocals: Scott Whitfield
Road Manager: Scott Whitfield
Stage Manager: Dale Devoe
CD Sales Manager: Philip Hilger
* Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra
Members have also played with Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Don Ellis, Cab Calloway,
Ray McKinley, and the ghost bands of Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Harry James;
plus the Airmen of Note and the US Navy Show Band.
There is no experience in the world like hearing a big band, and no band in the world sounds like the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra! The cancelled itineraries from 2020 and 2021 are bittersweet, but new dates for the Kenton Legacy Band Still Remain - Contact us about 2022!
Students, their parents AND their grandparents all deserve a chance to hear the majestic Kenton band sound. A special treat - Ride with the Band!
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra will tour again in 2022 and needs your help. As many of you know, 95% of all our engagements are in high schools and colleges, in keeping with Stan’s commitment to jazz education. These days, schools just can’t afford to bring in a big band such as ours, but they would LOVE to have us in to work with their students.
Any school that books the band for an evening concert gets a FREE afternoon clinic from the whole band. We also have their school band open for us at the concert. So, once again we are asking for your support to make our 2022 tour a success. Our tour dates are flexible for Spring 2022. With your help, we can make the band even more available financially for these schools.
Friends of Big Band Jazz is a 501 c 3 non profit that funds the bands performances and charitable giving to schools and music events benefiting communities and students.
Please use the Donate Button below to support the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra in 2022!
For the past 15 years, when the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra tours, we have had fans travel on the bus with us. They ride the bus, stay in the same hotels as the band, eat some meals with the band and attend all the clinics and concerts. Many who have joined us have said that it was one of the great experiences of their life.
Anyone can travel for the whole tour or pick a series of days during the tour to meet up with the bus.
There is a reasonable daily fee which includes everything described above.
Please contact us if you are interested in more information.
Here's the story of one person whose life was greatly impacted by hearing the Stan Kenton Orchestra in 1972, and why donating to FBBJ/Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra is so important to our children and grandchildren. They deserve to hear the Kenton band.
From the Roseville Jazz Festival - Jennifer Leitham performs her composition "The Trashman Cometh" with the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra from May 26, 2019. You can support the band with a donation of any amount using the button above on this page.