Backgrounder: Kenny Dorham: Una Mas, 1963

The second to last studio album trumpeter Kenny Dorham released as a leader before he died in 1972 was Una Mas (One More Time). Featuring just three original songs, the album was one of his best.

An early adapter of bebop in the mid-1940s, Dorham was most famously in Charlie Parker's quintet of 1948 and '49, the one that recorded live during a run at New York's Royal Roost and became an important box set.

From there, Durham had a prolific recording career in the 1950s, appearing on dozens of vital albums, including Tadd Dameron's Fontainebleau, Sonny Rollins's Movin' Out and Plays for Bird, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers first album in 1953, Hank Mobley Featuring Sonny Clark, The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi and Meet Oliver Nelson. Dorham also recorded a string of important leadership LPs during this period.

In April 1963, he recorded Una Mas for Blue Note with a stellar quintet: Dorham (tp), Joe Henderson (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Butch Warren (b) and Tony Williams (d).

Here's Kenny Dorham's Una Mas without ad interruptions...