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Canadian jazz trumpeter primarily associated with Stan Kenton in the 1940s. Born February 3, 1920 in Montreal, Canada, died August 1, 1992 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For the visual artist, writer and Afro-Cuban singer, percussionist and bandleader active in the 1970s to present, see Chico Alvarez.

ALBUMS


CHICO ALVAREZ
CHICO ALVAREZ w/PALOMONTE AFRO CUBAN BIG BAND
CD, Album, Mafimba Productions
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
AFRS Jubilee Recordings
2011, CD, Sounds Of Yester Year, ,
Swing/Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
1950
2001, CD, Comp, Classics (11), ,
Big Band/Contemporary/Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Formative Years: 1941
1999, CD, Comp, Status, Status, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Transcription Performances Vol. 2
1999, CD, Album, Mono, RM, Hep Records (3), ,
Big Band/Swing
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Transcription Performances 1945-46
1997, CD, Mono, RE, RM, Hep Records (3), ,
Swing/Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
On The Air
1997, CD, Comp, Status, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Uncollected 1945-1947 Vol. 5
1997, CD, Comp, RE, Hindsight Records (2)
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Innovations Live 1951
1992, CD, Album, Bandstand
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Uncollected Stan Kenton, Vol. 5, 1945-47
1980
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Uncollected Stan Kenton And His Orchestra 1941
1978, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Uncollected Stan Kenton, Vol. 2, 1941
1978
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Live Sessions 1942/1945
1977, ,
Big Band/Swing
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Artistry In Jazz
1972,
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Great Big Band
1960, ,
Big Band/Jazz-Funk
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Unison Riff / Willow Weep For Me
1951, Shellac, 10", Capitol Records
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Rika Jika Jack / Harlem Holiday
1951, 7", RE, Capitol Records, ,
Big Band/Bop
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Francesca / Night Watch
1951, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Laura / Jump For Joe
1951
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Harlem Holiday / Impressionism
1950, Shellac, 10", Capitol Records,
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Viva Prado / I'm So In The Mood
1950, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Come Back To Sorrento / Artistry In Percussion
1949
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
His Feet's Too Big For De Bed
1948, Shellac, 10", Scr, Capitol Records
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Intermission Riff / Minor Riff
1948, ,
Big Band/Bop
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Artistry In Boogie / Machito
1948
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Soothe Me / Lover
1948, ,
Big Band/Vocal
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
The Peanut Vendor / Thermopolae
1948
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Don't Want That Man Around / Harlem Holiday
1948
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
A Presentation Of Progressive Jazz
1948, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
His Feet Too Big For De Bed / After You
1947, Shellac, 10", Scr, Capitol Records
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Down in Chihuahua / Minor Riff
1947, Shellac, 10", Scr, Capitol Records
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Down in Chihuahua / Minor Riff
1947, Shellac, 10", Scr, Capitol Records, ,
Big Band/Vocal
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
There Is No Greater Love / Across The Alley From The Alamo
1947
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Concerto For Doghouse (A Setting In Motion) / Reed Rapture
1947
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Machito / Collaboration
1947, ,
Theme/Easy Listening
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out / Unison Riff
1947
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Down in Chihuahua / Minor Riff
1947
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Rika Jika Jack / Artistry In Boogie
1946
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Artistry In Rhythm
1946, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Reed Rapture / El Choclo
1942
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Unison Riff / Bongo Riff
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton's Concert In Miniature # 3 Plus The Meadowbrook , July 7 1942
LP, Album, Unofficial, Joyce, ,
Big Band

APPEARANCES +


Art Pepper
Over The Rainbow (Rare And Unissued Art Pepper 1949-1960)
2015, CDr, Club, RM, Lighthouse Records (4), ,
Bop/Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton
This Is An Orchestra!
2010, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Tantara (4)
Art Pepper
Pepper Pot
2009, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding
Jay & Kai
2007, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Bop
Various
Jazz In The Charts 94/100 (Red Sails In The Sunset 1951)
2006, CD, Comp, Mono, RM, Dig, Documents, Documents,
Various
The Ultimate Jazz Archive - Set 29/42
2005, 4xCD, Comp, Membran Music Ltd., ,
Swing/Bop/Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton
Cuban Episodes
2005, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz
Stan Kenton
Swing House
2005, 4xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Quadromania, ,
Big Band/Swing/Contemporary Jazz
Maynard Ferguson, His Orchestra* And Octet*
Band Ain't Draggin'
2005, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records, ,
Post Bop/Big Band
Stan Kenton
The Progressive Years 1941-1947
2005, CD, Comp, Jazz Legends
John Graas
Jazz Studio 3/4 Complete Sessions
2004, CD, Comp, Lone Hill Jazz, Lone Hill Jazz, ,
Cool Jazz
Shorty Rogers
The Sweetheart Of Sigmund Freud
2004
Stan Kenton
Reed Rapture - The Complete MacGregor Transcriptions Vol. 3 1941-1943
2003, CD, RE, Naxos Jazz Legends
Various
Classic Jazz: The Forties
2001, 2xCD, Comp, Time Life Music, Universal Music Special Markets,
Stan Kenton
Etude For Saxophones 1941-1942 (The Complete MacGregor Transcriptions Vol. 2)
2001, CD, RE, Naxos Jazz Legends,
Stan Kenton
"Artistry In Kenton" Vol. 1-3 1937-1946
2001, 3xCD, Jazz Unlimited, A Swing House Production, ,
Swing
Stan Kenton
Easy Go
2001
Stan Kenton
The Stan Kenton Story
2000
Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra* With June Christy
Live From Sweets Ballroom 1950
1997, CD, Album, Jazz Band Records, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
The Innovations Orchestra
1997, ,
Big Band/Contemporary/Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton
Rendezvous Of Standards And Classics
1995, 2xCD, Comp, Mono, RM, EMI, EMI, Music For Pleasure
Various
The Mercury Songbook
1995
Stan Kenton
The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings Of Stan Kenton 1943-47
1995
Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger
City Of Glass
1995, ,
Big Band/Modern/Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton
The Best Of Stan Kenton
1995, ,
Big Band
Various
Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925-1955
1993, ,
Big Band/Swing/Dixieland
Stan Kenton
Innovations - Live 1951
1992, CD, Album, Bandstand, ,
Big Band
Various
Capitol Jazz 50th Anniversary Collection
1992
Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
1992, ,
Big Band/Swing
Nat King Cole
Big Band Cole
1991, ,
Big Band/Swing/Vocal
The Nat King Cole Trio
The Complete Capitol Recordings Of The Nat King Cole Trio
1991, ,
Swing/Bop/Big Band/Vocal
Stan Kenton
Live In 1951 At The Hollywood Palladium, Volume 1
1989, ,
Big Band
Maynard Ferguson
Dimensions
1988
Bob Keene And His Orchestra*
Bob Keene And His Orchestra
1988
Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
1987, LP, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Greatest Orchestra* Featuring: Art Pepper, Shelley Manne*, Milt Bernhart, Maynard Ferguson
Summer Of '51
1987, ,
Big Band
Maynard Ferguson / Dizzy Gillespie / Miles Davis & The Metronome All Stars*
Trumpets On High!
1984, LP, Comp, Tall Tree Records
Various
Way To The West
1984, LP, Comp, RE, Capitol Records, ,
Big Band/Cool Jazz/Vocal
Stan Kenton
Big Bands: Stan Kenton
1984
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton In 1948
1983, LP, Album, Joyce
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton Back At The Steel Pier
1983, LP, Mono, Joyce, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra With June Christy
Hollywood Bowl - 1948 - Part One
1983
Stan Kenton
1947
1982, LP, Comp, Queen-disc, ,
Big Band
Various
The Great Big Bands
1982, ,
Big Band/Swing
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra With Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie
Kenton And Bird
1981, LP, Comp, Mono, Jazz Supreme
Nat King Cole, Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Nat King Cole & Stan Kenton
1980, LP, Joyce
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton In 1951
1979, LP, Joyce, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
Rendezvous Ballroom 1941, Volume Two
1978, LP, Mark56 Records
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton In 1950 Cavalcade Of Bands
1978, LP, Album, Joyce
Various
Mirage: Avant-Garde And Third-Stream Jazz
1977, LP, Comp, Mono, Gat, New World Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Big Band
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand with Stan Kenton at the Click
1977, LP, Album, Mono, Joyce, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton At The Commodore
1976, LP, Album, Mono, Joyce
Vido Musso
One Night Stand With Vido Musso
1975, LP, Album, Joyce
Various
Encyclopedia Of Jazz On Records - Vol. 3 The Forties / Vol. 4 The Fifties
1974, ,
Bop/Hard Bop/Big Band/Post Bop/Swing
Stan Kenton
One Night Stand With Stan Kenton
1974
Stan Kenton
By Request, Volume III
1973
Stan Kenton
Balboa / Summer 1941
1972
Stan Kenton
By Request
1971, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton's Greatest Hits
1965,
Various
Die Entwicklung Des Jazz I: Vom Spiritual Zum Modern Jazz
1965, ,
Dixieland/Swing
Stan Kenton
The Kenton Era Part 1: Balboa Bandwagon
1958, LP, Album, Comp, Mono, Capitol Records
Patti Page
In The Land Of Hi-Fi
1956
Jack Millman
Jazz Studio 4 - Pt. 3
1956
Stan Kenton / Buddy DeFranco / Miles Davis / Maynard Ferguson
The Modern Idiom - Part 1
1956
Stan Kenton
The Formative Years
1956
Vido Musso
The Swingin'st
1956, ,
Swing
Jack Millman
Jazz Studio 4
1955
Various
The Modern Idiom
1952, ,
Cool Jazz/Bop/Swing/Big Band
Frankie Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Vido Musso, Murray McEachern, Les Robinson
Sax Stylists
1952, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra Presenting Vido Musso
Pagliacci / Santa Lucia
1950, ,
Big Band
Nat "King" Cole And His Trio* And Stan Kenton And His Orchestra / Stan Kenton And His Orchestra With Nat "King" Cole*
Orange Colored Sky / Jam-Bo
1950
Stan Kenton
Encores
1949
Stanley Kenton And His Orchestra*
Adios / Taboo
1941
Stan Kenton
The Jazz Compositions Of Stan Kenton
LP, Comp, Creative World,
Stan Kenton
Opus In Pastels
2xCD, Comp, RM, History
Stan Kenton Und Sein Orchester*
Painted Rhythm / Harlem Holiday
Shellac, 10", Telefunken Capitol
Stan Kenton
The Kenton Era Part 2
LP, Comp, Mono, Capitol Records, Capitol Records, Capitol Records, ,
Big Band
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra*
Come Back To Sorrento / Machito
Shellac, 10", Capitol Records
Tito Rivera Y Su Havana Mambo Orquesta*
Undecided / Gin & Seven
7", Single, Seeco
Frankie Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Vido Musso, Murray McEachern, Les Robinson
Classics In Jazz Sax Stylists
10", Comp, Capitol Records, ,
Big Band/Swing
Nat King Cole
Big Band Cole
CD, Comp, Mono, RE, Capitol Jazz, ,
Big Band/Swing/Vocal
Stan Kenton
The Christy Years
Anita O'Day / June Christy
Easy Street
Stan Kenton
The Creative World Of Stan Kenton: Milestones
Stan Kenton
The Stan Kenton Story
Stan Kenton
Innovations In Modern Music
Stan Kenton
The Lighter Side
,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
Collector's Choice
,
Big Band
Stan Kenton
By Request - Volume IV
,
Big Band
Stan Kenton Featuring Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
Stan Kenton Presents
,
Cool Jazz/Bop
Stan Kenton
The Fabulous Alumni Of Stan Kenton
Various
Wild Rhythms Vol. 1
2010, CD, Album, Salsa Son Timba Records