HI-FI SN A C K In an attempt to keep from your phonograph and it plays washing the dishes in which music. he served ice cream, a man A phonograph record, once invented the ice cream pressed on thin acetate is cone. General Mills evidently being incorporated as one took a page out of that same side of the Wheaties package. book and decided that it was The kids just cut it out, trim a terrible waste to throw the edges and put it on a away the box in which they standard player. put their breakfast food. .They In case you don’t eat solved the problem with typi­ Wheaties, you can still buy the more conventional re­ In 1950 came the next «tep . "Innovation* In Mo dern Mutic." Kenton cal Yankee ingenuity . added a large itring section and called upon rising young arrangers like when you finish your Wheat- cordings at your local record Bob Graettinger to provide the orchestra with new a nd startling music. ies you just put the box on dealer. Again he hit the road, playing to packed concert halls all over the country. At left above, Stan and Nat Cole wax hit O range Colored Sky. Which brings us to the current phase of the "Kenton Era." In addition to concert tours and recordings with his own orchestra, Kenton is now a producer for Capitol, engaged in discovering and presenting new jazx talent under the title "Kenton Presents Jazz." Alrea dy he has presented the work of Claude Williamson, Frank Rosolino and Bob Cooper, pictured below, in addition to Boots Mussuli, Sal Salvador, Bill Holman and others. So, there is every evidence that the Kenton Era is still with us and will continue to be for many years to come, bringing new er and better music. Denise Lor, lovely TV, record star Record companies give gold records, holds Brascar Award given her by some give gold watches, but orkster columnist Earl Wilton for "exqui­ Rex Koury got a gold cocoanut from site form on records." Her latest Cocoanut Grove's Michael Hayes at Major disk, "And One To Grow On." close of engagement at LA. bistro. 13.