{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sophisticated Approach | type = Album | artist = The Stan Kenton Orchestra | cover = Sophisticated Approach.jpg | alt = | released = 1962 | recorded = July 5 & 7, 1961 | venue = | studio = Capitol (Hollywood) | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Capitol T/ST 1674 | producer = Lee Gillette | chronology = Stan Kenton | prev_title = A Merry Christmas! | prev_year = 1961 | next_title = Adventures in Standards | next_year = 1961 }}
'''''Sophisticated Approach''''' is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded in 1961 and released by Capitol Records.<ref name="Kenton discography">Vosbein, P. [http://allthingskenton.com/table_of_contents/recordings/capitol/sophisticated_approach/ Stan Kenton Discography] accessed June 8, 2016</ref><ref>Watts, R., Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. [http://www.bsnpubs.com/capitol/previews/600-2999.pdf Capitol Album Discography, Part 5: 600-2999 (1955-1968)] accessed June 8, 2016</ref><ref>[http://jazzdiscogcorner.pagesperso-orange.fr/discographies_%20labels/c/capitol/instrumentals/k/kenton_stan/discography/capitol_stankenton_1961.htm The Capitol Sessions of Stan Kenton: 1961]</ref> In 2006, Sophisticated Approach was digitally remastered and reissued on CD for the first time by Capitol Records/Blue Note Records and included six bonus tracks, including the non-album single, "Magic Moment".
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = All About Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|1|5}}<ref name="AAJ"/> }} The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn noted "''Sophisticated Approach'' features the ensemble when it was beginning to acquire a reputation for being more interested in structure and discipline than swing. The arrangements are tight, there's a minimum of solo space, and the songs are uneven".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Ron |last=Wynn |class=album |id=mw0000734617|title=''Sophisticated Approach'' Review |accessdate=June 8, 2016}}</ref> On All About Jazz Chris May said "Listening to ''Sophisticated Approach'' for more than about five minutes is an experience akin to having a sumo wrestler sit on your face. It isn't fun, it isn't jazz, and you need to come up for air".<ref name="AAJ">May, C. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/sophisticated-approach-stan-kenton-capitol-records-review-by-chris-may.php All About Jazz Review], May 18, 2006</ref>
==Track listing== # "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 3:18 # "Darn That Dream" (Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 2:12 # "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 5:12 # "Moonlight Becomes You" (Van Heusen, Burke) - 3:50 # "How Do I Look In Blue" (Gene Roland, Johnny Richards) - 2:50 # "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) - 2:52 # "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:32 # "Memoirs of a Lady" (Richards, Blanca Webb) - 2:48 # "Time After Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 4:16 # "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) - 2:53 # "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 2:37 # "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) - 4:35 *Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on July 5, 1961 (tracks 1–7 & 12) and July 7, 1961 (tracks 8–11).
*In 2006, ''Sophisticated Approach'' was digitally remastered and reissued on CD with the bonus tracks:
13. "Some Enchanted Evening" (R. Rogers, O. Hammerstein) - 3:27
14. "Make Someone Happy" (Styne, Comden, Green) - 3:09
15. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (H. Arlen, J. Mercer) - 2:29
16. "Gigi" (A. J. Lerner, F. Lowe) - 2:59
17. "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" (R. Rogers, L. Hart) - 2:32
18. "Magic Moment" (H, Dietz, A. Schwartz) - 2:56 *Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on December 5, 6 & 12, 1961
==Personnel== *Stan Kenton - piano, conductor *Bob Behrendt, Bud Brisbois, Dalton Smith, Bob Rolfe - trumpet *Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Jack Spurlock - trombone *Jim Amlotte - bass trombone *Dave Wheeler - bass trombone, tuba *Dwight Carver, Keith LaMotte, Gene Roland, Carl Saunders - mellophone *Gabe Baltazar - alto saxophone *Sam Donahue, Paul Renzi - tenor saxophone *Marvin Holladay - baritone saxophone *Wayne Dunstan - baritone saxophone, bass saxophone *Red Mitchell - bass *Jerry McKenzie - drums *Lennie Niehaus - arranger
==References== {{reflist}}{{Stan Kenton}} {{Authority control}}
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