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McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention or public recognition from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, writer Gary Giddins said that Dorham's name has become "virtually synonymous with underrated." He also composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa," which first appeared on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
Dorham was one of the most active bebop trumpeters. He played in the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Mercer Ellington and the quintet of Charlie Parker. He was a charter member of the original cooperative Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollin
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Kenny Dorham (tp) Hank Mobley (ts) Cecil Payne (bars) JJ Johnson (trom) Horace Silver (p) Percy Heath/ Oscar Pettiford (b) Art Blakey (d) Carlos “Potato” Valdes (congas) recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, January 30/ 29 March 1955
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First released in 1955 on 10″ Blue Note, and subsequently re-released on 12″ LP in 1957 with additional tracks and new artwork, on Lexington . This is a copy of the latter version, as reissued in Japan. The line up is magnificent, with one of my favourite bassists Oscar Pettiford, plus JJ Johnson, Hank Mobley, Cecil Payne and Horace Silver, though if I were Charlie Valdez I wouldn’t be too delighted with the nickname “potato”. Skin or shape, it doesn’t flatter. Blakey powers along as you might expect, no surprises there. Dorham is in his best peppy form ,with his trademark rapid bursts of notes in twisting trails . Mobley excels in his generous solo space and Cecil Payne’s baritone ad
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Kenny Dorham: Afro-Cuban
At the time of writing this critique this recording will have been almost three years old. However, the music of the celebrated Brasilian artist Milton “Bituca” Nascimento is timeless. And so, indeed, is any music created and produced by the prodigiously gifted Clarice Assad, third generation of a fabled Brasilian musical family. So, the statute of limitations ceases to apply to this recording Window to the World – A Tribute to Milton Nascimento.
I would wager a guess that among living Brasilian musicians no musician has received more recorded tributes than the inimitable Mr Nascimento. The word ‘legendary,’ though often bandied about when it comes to Brasilian musicians – alive or no longer alive – has little meaning. Miles Davis rightly scorned the term saying that it only belonged ‘to dead cats.’ But few Brasilians alive today deserve it – even among such stellar lights as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Ivan Lins. Mr Nascimento [and perhaps Chico Buarque, Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti – each for varied reasons, of course] are
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