COVER PAGE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PRELUDE -- 1. BALBOA BANDWAGON (1941) -- 2. HOLLYWOOD HIGHS AND BIG APPLE BLUES (1941-1942) -- 3. HANGING ON (1942-1943) -- 4. DANCE BAND DAYS (1944-1945) -- 5. A NEW BEGINNING (1945) -- 6. THE ARRIVAL OF RUGOLO (1946) -- 7. THE ARTISTRY ORCHESTRA (1946) -- 8. ARTISTRY OFF THE RAILS (1947) -- 9. PROGRESSIVE JAZZ (1947) -- 10. THE LOST YEARS (1948-1949) -- 11. INNOVATIONS IN MODERN MUSIC (1950-1951) -- 12. NEW CONCEPTS OF ARTISTRY IN RHYTHM (1952) -- 13. IF IT'S TUESDAY, IT MUST BE BELGIUM (1953) -- 14. "KENTON PRESENTS JAZZ" (1954-1955) -- 15. STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY (1955) -- 16. FUEGO CUBANO! (1956) -- 17. BACK TO BALBOA (1957-1958) -- 18. STANDARDS IN SILHOUETTE (1958-1959) -- 19. THE RESTLESS SEARCHER (1960) -- 20. FOUR OF A KIND: THE MELLOPHONIUM ORCHESTRA (1961) -- 21. ADVENTURES IN TIME (1962-1963) -- 22. ADVENTURE IN EMOTION: THE LA NEOPHONIC (1964-1968) -- 23. MARKING TIME (1965-1966) -- 24. DELIGHTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS (1967-1969) -- 25. THE CREATIVE WORLD OF STAN KENTON (1970) -- 26. MACUMBA! (1971) -- 27. HEIGHT OF ECSTASY (1972-1973) -- 28. KENTON GOES ROCK (1973-1974) -- 29. THE ROAD TO "NO WHERE" (1975-1976) -- 30. ACCIDENT! (1977) -- 31. WOUNDED WARRIOR (1978) -- 32. THE END OF AN ERA (1979) -- POSTLUDE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.