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Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
Readers accustomed to novels may find most jazz biographies only intermittently satisfying. Lives, of course, cannot be arranged into dramatic arcs worthy of Trollope or Faulkner—but, just the same, the chronicle of the life and music of your favorite musician often has all its drama in the beginning: attempts to find a personal style, to become ...
Kenny Davern, Remembered
First, some comedy. The last time I saw Kenny Davern in action was at Sunnie Sutton's 2006 Rocky Mountain Jazz Party--only a few months before his death. At the dinner for musicians and friends the night before the party started, Kenny took a napkin off one of the tables, draped it over his arm, and transformed ...
Take Five With Jim Brimer
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jim Brimer: I am Jim Brimer, a jazz clarinetist that leads a group called Jim's Jazz Band which plays traditional jazz residing in Fort Worth, Texas. Brian Harvey of EuroClub de Jazz in the United Kingdom says “The Jim of Jim's Jazz Band is the highly experienced and very talented clarinetist Jim Brimer, who's been ...
Following in Bechet's Footsteps
by Ken Dryden
Bob Wilber with Clark Terry Blowin' the Blues Away Classic Jazz 2008 Nik Payton and Bob Wilber Swinging the Changes Arbors 2008 Soprano Summit 1975...and more! Arbors
No One But Kenny
By Kenny Davern
Label: Sackville
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sugar; Moonglow; No One Else But You; DBR Drag; You're Lucky to Me; Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho; Tishomingo Blues; All by Myself ; Pretty Baby (Clarinet/Piano Duet); (There Is) No Greater Love; Beale Street Blues (Piano Solo); My Honey's Loving Arms.
Kenny Davern: No One But Kenny
by George Kanzler
The album title could stand as a fitting epitaph for clarinetist Kenny Davern, who died of a heart attack in December, 2006 at seventy-one. For no one else played jazz quite like Davern, whose affection for old trad jazz tunes belied a quirky sense of time as singular as Thelonious Monk's and a cavalier attitude toward ...
In Concert at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, 2004
By Kenny Davern
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ole Miss; Careless Love; Somebody Stole My Gal; Summertime; Spreading Knowledge
Around; C.C. Rider; These Foolish Things; Royal Garden Blues.
The Kenny Davern Quartet: In Concert at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, 2004
by Florence Wetzel
Now in his 70s, Kenny Davern is a modern master of the clarinet, and his playing is an example of the effortlessness that comes only from decades of effort. This release finds him in the good company of guitarist James Chirillo, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Tony DeNicola on eight classic songs that radiate the pure, ...
Live at the Floating Jazz Festival
By Kenny Davern
Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Bernie's Tune; Mood Indigo; Three Little Words; Blue Monk; Blue Lou;
Creole Love Call; I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me; Undecided
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