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Overshadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan, Kenny Dorham's abilities as a composer and unique voice as an advanced bop trumpet player are underrated to this day. McKinley Howard Dorham was born on August 30, 1924 on a ranch called Post Oak, near Fairfield, Texas. He attended Anderson High School in Austin, where he began teaching himself to play piano and trumpet, and spending much of his time on the school boxing team. He later enrolled at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, studying chemistry and minoring in physics
Our Thing To In ’N Out Revisited
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Our Thing: Teeter Totte; Pedro’s Time; Our Thing; Back Road; Escapade. In ’n Out: In ‘n Out; Punjab; Serenity; Short Story; Brown’s Town.
Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
By Kenny Dorham
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Blue Bossa; Confirmation; Memories of You; My One and Only Love; Bags’ Groove; Blue Friday; The Theme.
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
by Katchie Cartwright
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz ...
Meet Dabin Ryu
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with pianist, arranger, and composer Dabin Ryu. Her debut album on Endectomorph Records is titled Trio! with Joe Martin on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums. Playlist Lôro Malandro “Baião Quotidiano" from Enrumbado (Dodicilune) 2:30 Paul Harrison “Transition" from Encontros: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (Harriphonic) 1:47 Carter Fox ...
Chuck Mangione: Friend For Lovers
by Chris M. Slawecki
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 2000. Chuck Mangione is best known as the trumpet player and composer of that ubiquitous tune, which taught millions worldwide that music “Feels So Good." But Chuck Mangione boasts serious Jazz chops: Before flying solo, he cut his teeth in the Woody ...
Chuck Mangione: Back On Track
by Michael Ricci
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in June 1999... without embedded videos. For three decades, Chuck Mangione's infectious energy, unbridled enthusiasm, and pure joy have defined his deep passion for music. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, he first garnered attention playing with the Jazz Brothers alongside his older brother, Gap. ...
Is It RSD Again Already?
by Patrick Burnette
RSD--or Record Store Day for you vinyl virgins--comes but once, er, or twice a year, and while the main focus is who will win the privilege to buy a color-vinyl edition of the Wicked soundtrack, there's a little bit of jazz sprinkled in there, too. The boys talk about four selections, three recently uncovered live dates ...
Tom Wakeling: West by Northwest
by Jack Bowers
West by Northwest is another in a recent series of splendid small-group concert recordings, this one by bassist Tom Wakeling's close-knit quartet, taped in February 2024 for a receptive audience at the Ravenscroft Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Wakeling had teamed for a number of years with pianist Angelo Versace and drummer Dom Moio. ...
Introducing Trumpeter Kal Ferretti
by Sanford Josephson
When she was attending the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Kal Ferretti rode the subway to Manhattan from her home in Staten Island. The music on her phone was Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). “I would wear that out every train ride," she said. The 22-year-old Ferretti always wanted to play the trumpet, ...
