KENNY DORHAM RARE STEREO 1960 TIME LP JAZZ CONTEMPORARY

KENNY DORHAM JAZZ CONTEMPORARY LPCategory / Style / Moods: Jazz * Hard Bop * Bop Moods Instruments * Intimate * Amiable/ Good-Natured * Earthy * Earnest * Energetic * Elegant * Sophisticated * Rousing * Rollicking * Trumpet10 / 20 A1960 US TIME LPTITLE: JAZZ CONTEMPORARYARTIST: KENNY DORHAMCONDITIONVINYL: SOLID VGCOVER: VG- TO VG SEAM SPLITS SMALL TAPE & WRITING ON BACKClick here for info on grading and abbreviationsRARE ORIGINAL DEEP GROOVE STEREOClick the pix for a better view TRACKS: Disc: 11.WaltzDorham 5:272.Monk's MoodMonk 8:013.In Your Own Sweet WayBrubeck 7:544.Horn SaluteDorham 8:245.TonicaDorham 2:546.This Love of MineParker, Sanicola, Sinatra 6:48Review by Scott Yanow Originally on the Time label, this LP features the excellent (but always underrated) trumpeter Kenny Dorham heading a quintet that also includes baritonist Charles Davis, pianist Steve Kuhn, either Jimmy Garrison or Butch Warren on bass, and drummer Buddy Enlow. The results are not quite essential but everyone plays up to par, performing three of Dorham's originals plus "In Your Own Sweet Way," "Monk's Mood," and "This Love of Mine." It's fine hard bop, the modern mainstream music of the period. Biography by Scott Yanow Throughout his career, Kenny Dorham was almost famous for being underrated since he was consistently overshadowed by Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan. Dorham was never an influential force himself but a talented bop-oriented trumpeter and an excellent composer who played in some very significant bands. In 1945, he was in the orchestras of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine, he recorded with the Be Bop Boys in 1946, and spent short periods with Lionel Hampton and Mercer Ellington. During 1948-1949, Dorham was the trumpeter in the Charlie Parker Quintet. After some freelancing in New York in 1954, he became a member of the first version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and for a short time led a group called the Jazz Prophets, which recorded on Blue Note. After Clifford Brown's death, Dorham became his replacement in the Max Roach Quintet (1956-1958) and then he led several groups of his own. He recorded several fine dates for Riverside (including a vocal album in 1958), New Jazz, and Time, but it is his Blue Note sessions of 1961-1964 that are among his finest. Dorham was an early booster of Joe Henderson (who played with his group in 1963-1964). After the mid-'60s, Kenny Dorham (who wrote some interesting reviews for Down Beat) began to fade and he died in 1972 of kidney disease. Among his many originals is one that became a standard, "Blue Bossa."This exquisite piece of retro music history is a vinyl sound recording (not a CD). Please visit the A Sound Deal store for similar items and information on grading and shipping. Add me to your favorites for red hot sales bulletins and sneak previews of upcoming products. Combine Items to Save $$$! Click here to check the store for more!©A Sound Deal