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Portraits on Standards is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton with featuring performances of jazz standards recorded in 1953 and originally released on the Capitol label as a 10-inch LP.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Allmusic

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow noted "While most of Stan Kenton's recordings in the 1950s tend to be complex and sometimes bombastic, his versions of standards could often be sentimental and very melodic" and said the music "alternates between ballads and boppish romps, mostly featuring the 1953–1954 orchestra, a band that could often swing hard".

Track listing

"You and the Night and the Music" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:43
"Reverie" (Claude Debussy) – 2:56
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 2:53
"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 2:41
"April in Paris" (Duke, Yip Harburg) – 2:53
"How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) – 2:22
"Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn) – 3:02
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:02

Personnel

Stan Kenton – piano, conductor
Conte Candoli, Buddy Childers, Don Dennis, Ernie Royal, Don Smith – trumpet
Bob Burgess, Keith Moon, Frank Rosolino, Tommy Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Don Carone, Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
Zoot Sims, Ed Wasserman – tenor saxophone
Tony Ferina – baritone saxophone
Sal Salvador – guitar
Don Bagley – bass
Stan Levey – drums
Bill Russo – arranger

References

Vosbein, P. Stan Kenton Discography accessed April 11, 2016
Watts, R., Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Capitol Album Discography, Part 4: The 12" LPs: 450-599 accessed April 11, 2016
The Capitol Sessions of Stan Kenton: 1953
^ Yanow, Scott. Portraits on Standards – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 11, 2016.

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Studio albums	Artistry in Rhythm (1946) Encores (1947) A Presentation of Progressive Jazz (1947) Innovations in Modern Music (1950) Stan Kenton Presents (1950) City of Glass (1951) New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (1952) Sketches on Standards (1953) This Modern World (1953) Portraits on Standards (1953) Kenton Showcase (1954) Duet (1955) Contemporary Concepts (1955) Kenton in Hi-Fi (1956) Cuban Fire! (1956) Kenton with Voices (1957) Rendezvous with Kenton (1957) Back to Balboa (1958) The Ballad Style of Stan Kenton (1958) Lush Interlude (1958) The Stage Door Swings (1958) The Kenton Touch (1958) Viva Kenton! (1959) Standards in Silhouette (1959) Two Much! (1960) The Romantic Approach (1961) Kenton's West Side Story (1961) A Merry Christmas! (1961) Sophisticated Approach (1961) Adventures in Jazz (1961) Adventures in Blues (1961) Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter! (1962) Adventures in Time (1962) Artistry in Bossa Nova (1963) Artistry in Voices and Brass (1963) Stan Kenton / Jean Turner (1963) Kenton / Wagner (1964) Stan Kenton Conducts the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra (1966) Stan Kenton Plays for Today (1967) The World We Know (1967) The Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton (1967) Finian's Rainbow (1968) Hair (1969) Stan Kenton Plays Chicago (1974) Adventures in Standards (1975) Stan Kenton Presents Gabe Baltazar (1979)
Compilation albums	Stan Kenton's Milestones (1950) Stan Kenton Classics (1952) Popular Favorites by Stan Kenton (1953) The Kenton Era (1955) The Innovations Orchestra (1997)
Live albums	Kenton Live from the Las Vegas Tropicana (1959) Road Show (1959) Live at Redlands University (1970)
Compositions	"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine"

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
Recordings with Al Cohn	From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974)
With Quincy Jones	This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956) The Birth of a Band! (1959) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
With Gerry Mulligan	California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968) Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)

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