Jazz Articles about Betty Glamman

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Kenny Dorham: Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts

Read "Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
October 5, 2007

In the new liner notes included with this addition to the Keepnews Collection on Riverside, the producer expresses his satisfaction with this 1957 “blowing" album, showcasing the trumpeter whom, after Clifford Brown, he considers second to none. Recorded approximately a year following Brown's passing, the date demonstrates Dorham's gifts as a balladeer, composer and, above all, as a pyrotechnician--the kind of player who can take apart a song's chord structure and reconstruct it with surgical precision, even while operating at ...

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Album Review

Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts

Read "Jazz Contrasts" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
July 11, 2007

Producer Orrin Keepnews was never one to indulge much in blowing sessions, but this 1957 recording from trumpeter Kenny Dorham comes pretty close. With a lineup featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Hank Jones, and Max Roach, why not just give the guys a few standards and turn them loose? Dorham had been recruited for Riverside from a successful stint at Blue Note and Rollins had just completed Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956), so both were eager and ready. The rhythm section ...