Kenny Dorham

[david weiss]

I'm actually unsure myself but those would be my guesses......

The last one.....

Rein de Graff I think

[king ubu]

Great photos, thanks a lot for sharing them, David!

Edited December 31, 2012 by king ubu

[J.A.W.]

I'm actually unsure myself but those would be my guesses......

The last one.....

Rein de Graff I think

Yep, that's Rein de Graaff.

Edited December 31, 2012 by J.A.W.

[Brad]

Its great when you aren't buying hardly anything and start to have time to revisit the old favorites more ... tonight I am swapping out the car CD case and now I am in the mood for some KD ... and some Jackie Mac!

I have to start doing this Dan. I have just too much music.

Almost 40 years. Kenny was underrate.

Ditto on both counts

[david weiss]

Some more.....

Personnel anyone?

I'm told them personnel on this one is Chick Corea, Louis Hayes and Butch Warren

[televiper]

I've only just recently begun exploring Kenny Dorham's music but I've really dug what I've heard, especially "Quiet Kenny" and the Blue Note Recordings with Joe Henderson.

[Larry Kart]

Some very nice KD here, good Cannonball, too:

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Spring-Kenny-Dorham/dp/B000000Y7S

[BillF]

Some very nice KD here, good Cannonball, too:

http://www.amazon.co...m/dp/B000000Y7S

Yes, lovely album!

[Peter Friedman]

Some very nice KD here, good Cannonball, too:

http://www.amazon.co...m/dp/B000000Y7S

Yes, lovely album!

Yes, I am in total agreement. A terrific recording with excellent playing by Dorham and Cannonball.

[brownie]

News from KD's younger brother:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23544473/local-jazz-artist-will-celebrate-50-years-concert

[flat5]

Thanks, brownie. I did not know of him.

[mikeweil]

So he's playing timbales - very nice. I'd like to hear some!

[bluesoul]

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-09-14/trumpet-colossus-kenny-dorham-towers-alongside-the-jazz-gods/

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, bluesoul said:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-09-14/trumpet-colossus-kenny-dorham-towers-alongside-the-jazz-gods/

Fascinating - and sad - article.

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Fascinating - and sad - article.

Agreed. The only fault that I find with it is that I have some other favorite KD recordings, but that's just me.

[Joe]

Thanks so much for sharing this article. Some new info here for me.

[mikeweil]

Just my thoughts. 

[paul secor]

Does anyone else here have some favorite Kenny Dorham recordings?
Mine are The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia Volume 1, Quiet Kenny, and Showboat.

[danasgoodstuff]

KD wrote wonderfully and his work with Joe Hen makes for a great frontline contrast.  Beyond that I don't feel qualified to comment, except to say the life story seems impossibly sad.

[mjzee]

15 hours ago, bluesoul said:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-09-14/trumpet-colossus-kenny-dorham-towers-alongside-the-jazz-gods/

Thanks for posting that.  Texas has a great jazz history.

[felser]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

Does anyone else here have some favorite Kenny Dorham recordings?
Mine are The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia Volume 1, Quiet Kenny, and Showboat.

In addition to the 60's Blue Notes with Henderson, I really like this one for the extended "Melanie" (McLean's "Melody for Melanie").  Also the 1956 "Jazz Prophets" album and the 1956 Cafe Bohemia recordings released on Blue Note.   But the Henderson recordings and "Matador" are the ones I come back to the most, especially "Trompeta Toccata".

[Rooster_Ties]

Can anyone comment on KD's appearance on Toshiko Akiyoshi's 1968 live album "Toshiko at Top of the Gate"? (On Nippon Columbia, if I've got my info right)

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Does anyone else here have some favorite Kenny Dorham recordings?

It's Joe's record, but it could just as easily be Kenny's. Three of the five tunes are his, and they're all true gems, familiar vocabularies creatively structured, all quite evocative of a wholly different place than Generic. Same thing for his playing. He's the star of the record, imo, not that there ever needs to be one, just that sometimes it happens like that.

 

[Larry Kart]

A gem. The four standards here -- "Alone Together," "My Ideal," "I Had the Craziest Dream," and "Old Folks" -- are superb.

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dorham+old+folks

It's a paltry word for it, but the continuity!

[mikeweil]

I really love his very first album, espeially the bonus track "Chicago" on the CD version where he sings. And the Monk tune ... nobody plays "Ruby My Dear" these days.

Edited September 16, 2018 by mikeweil