Jazz Contemporary (High Definition Remaster 2023) Kenny Dorham

• 1 A Waltz (Remastered 2023) 05:30
• 2 Monk's Mood (Remastered 2023) 08:05
• 3 In Your Own Sweet Way (Remastered 2023) 07:57
• 4 Horn Salute (Remastered 2023) 08:24
• 5 Tonica (Remastered 2023) 02:53
• 6 This Love Of Mine (Remastered 2023) 06:46
• Total Runtime 39:35

Info for Jazz Contemporary (High Definition Remaster 2023)

Great work from one of the hippest jazz contemporaries of the late 60s — trumpeter Kenny Dorham, a player who was really coming into his own by the time of this album! The record has Kenny with a nice sort of edge — not as boldly experimental as his 60s work for Blue Note, but definitely pushing things forward from the 50s — shaking off the sweet for a bit more bite, and working with a great lineup that includes Steve Kuhn on piano, Charles Davis on baritone sax, and either Jimmy Garrison or Butch Warren on bass. Kuhn and Davis really bring some interesting elements to the record — and titles include “Tonica”, “Monk’s Mood”, “In Your Own Sweet Way”, and “Horn Salute”

"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." (Scott Yanow, ANG)

Kenny Dorham, trumpet
Charles Davis, baritone saxophone
Steve Kuhn, piano
Jimmy Garrison, double bass (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8 & 10)
Butch Warren, double bass (tracks 1, 4-6 & 9)
Buddy Enlow, drums

Recorded in New York, February 11, 1960

Digitally remastered

Kenny Dorham
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." (Scott Yanow). Source: Blue Note Records.

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