Viva Kenton is an album by Stan Kenton

Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....

, released in 1959 by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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, and later on Kenton's own Creative World label.
The album features compositions by Gene Roland

Gene Roland

Gene M. Roland was a jazz composer and musician who played many instruments during his career but was most significant as an arranger/composer and for his association with Stan Kenton...

, and was Kenton's second all-Latin album. It was the followup to Kenton's successful Cuban Fire!

Cuban Fire!

Cuban Fire! is an album recorded by Stan Kenton and his orchestra in 1956. This has become one of the most influential Latin jazz, large ensemble recordings of all time; it was a first for the Kenton big band in terms of popularity, style, and overall album theme...

LP of 1956.

Viva Kenton features Kenton's 18-piece orchestra, with an additional percussion quartet. Featured soloists are alto saxophonist

Alto saxophone

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 Charlie Mariano

Charlie Mariano

Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....

, trombonist

Trombone

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 Don Sebesky

Don Sebesky

Don Sebesky is an American jazz trombonist and arranger.-Biography:Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding, Claude Thornhill, Tommy Dorsey, Warren Covington, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton...

, and trumpet

Trumpet

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er Rolf Ericson

Rolf Ericson

Rolf Ericson was a Swedish jazz trumpeter. He also played the flugelhorn.- Early career :He moved to New York City in 1947 and in 1949 joined Charlie Barnet's big band and with Woody Herman in 1950...

.

In 2005, Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 released the album on CD (under the Capitol Jazz imprint) with 6 bonus tracks, all taken from the 1963 album Artistry in Bossa Nova.

Track listing

1. "Mexican Jumping Bean"
2. "Siesta"
3. "Cha Cha Sombrero"
4. "Chocolate Caliente"
5. "Aqua Marine"
6. "Opus in Chartreuse Cha-Cha-Cha"
7. "Cha Cha Chee Boom"
8. "Adios"
9. "Mission Trail"
10. "Artistry in Rhythm"
11. "Artistry in Bossa Nova" (a.k.a. Artistry in Bolero) [CD bonus track]
12. "Interlude" [CD bonus track]
13. "Jump For Joe" [CD bonus track]
14. "Opus in Pastels" [CD bonus track]
15. "Concerto to End All Concertos" [CD bonus track]
16. "Loco-Nova" [CD bonus track]