JazzSnaps: Kenton and Ventura

Bob Lorenz of Woofy Productions sent these photos along for my interview series with tenor saxophonist Arno Marsh. But at the time, I didn't have room for them. So here they are now...

The Stan Kenton Orchestra in 1956. Pictured: Red Mitchell (bass), Pepper Adams (baritone sax), Bill Perkins (alto sax), Arno Marsh (tenor sax) and Billy Root (tenor sax).

The Charlie Ventura Band at Las Vegas' Thunderbird Hotel in 1958. Among those pictured: Carl Fontana (standing, with trombone); Arno Marsh (tenor sax) seated behind Ventura (standing, playing tenor), and Frank Strazzeri (piano).

Five more days...until the Complete Rudy Van Gelder JazzWax Sessions. Starting Monday, five days of my conversation with the famed recording engineer under the Douglas-fir rafters of his famed Englewood Cliffs, N.J., studio, where virtually every great jazz album of the '60s, '70s and beyond was recorded with love and care.

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