He served on three other major Capitol releases in the trombone section. His compositions Waltz of the Prophets and Turtle Talk were recorded as part of Kenton's Grammy award-winning album Adventures in Jazz. In 1961, at the age of 23, Barton joined Kenton's orchestra in the trombone section. Kenton became very familiar with Barton's playing and writing abilities. While Barton was attending school, Stan Kenton came to teach at a music clinic at North Texas State University in August 1959.
He also worked with the Charlie Spivak band during that time. "He was not a kind man, and it was a most unpleasant experience that almost turned me against the road altogether." He left the band in New York three weeks later and replaced an absent trombonist in the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. So I was surprised when he called me by name." ĭetermined then to get away from Mississippi, Barton went on the road in 1956 with Ralph Marterie's big band. I didn't see him until two years later when I'd grown some. "He never forgot the name of anybody I ever saw him meet. "Stan was very strange in one sense," said Barton. He first met Kenton backstage at a concert in 1953 when Barton was 15.
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Professional work and Stan Kenton īarton early on had an ambition to join the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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Gene Hall, head of the department of music, arranged a full scholarship for Barton. In 1957 Barton already had a reputation and wanted to study composition at North Texas State University but had no money. īarton went onto attended Murray State University and after that North Texas State University where he was a member of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band under Gene Hall and Leon Breeden. Barton was able to take over his father's work and teach all of his classes for two years to keep the Starkville High School job running. He practiced in the school band room for 10 hours a day, and was able to help when his father was ill. "My dad brought home an old E flat mellophone and at the age of three I figured out the fingerings on it," said Barton. His father became the band director at Starkville High School. The family moved to Starkville, Mississippi in 1941. 1.4 Back to the Mid-South: Memphis TN, Jackson MSĭee Barton was born in Houston, Mississippi in 1937.
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