Bob Kindred

[AllenLowe]

I played with Bob years ago, and I'd almost forgotten what a great tenor player he is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHzCXmyOOw

[jlhoots]

He is excellent.

Have him on a Venus CD that I particularly like.

[Peter Friedman]

I saw Bob Kindred at 2 different Topeka Jazz Festivals back about 10 years or so ago. He played great. I was shocked at

how few recordings he has made. His playing was at a level that I believed to be in the highest echelon of "straight ahead"

tenor players around.

[Larry Kart]

Ordered and just got his Milan label album as a result of Allen's initial post. Very fine -- thanks.

[AllenLowe]

glad you like it - Bob's got something a bit more complex than just 'straight ahead,' though some of that is probably the result of just trying to make a living over the years. He was in the band at a friend's wedding, maybe the middle 1970s - and we played together and had a great time. Nice guy, too.

Edited October 31, 2011 by AllenLowe

[Larry Kart]

glad you like it - Bob's got something a bit more complex than just 'straight ahead,' though some of that is probably the result of just trying to make a living over the years. He was in the band at a friend's wedding, maybe the middle 1970s - and we played together and had a great time. Nice guy, too.

His sound and time (everything about him, actually) has a lot of personal knots and whorls in it. He could be a nice test case of the difference between being quite personal and expressive within a more or less given style and not being that way -- a test case because what makes Kindred so personal and expressive, so himself, will not be familiar to most listeners, while most others who are personal and of his vintage (or younger) will be recognized up front and this probably will influence one's judgment.