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Kenny Dorham: Trumpeter Laureate

Read "Kenny Dorham: Trumpeter Laureate" reviewed by Samuel Chell


The critic Gary Giddins once wrote that Kenny Dorham's name is “virtually synonymous with 'underrated'." Which raises a question. Is it possible for a musician who has achieved widespread fame for non-recognition to remain “deserving" of the description? Possibly so, if Art Blakey's anointing of Dorham as the “uncrowned trumpet king" is to be taken seriously. ...

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Afro-Cuban

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Afrodisia 2. Lotus Flower 3. Minor's Holiday 4. Minor's Holiday [Alternate Take] 5. Basheer's Dream 6. K.D.'s Motion 7. Villa 8. Venita's Dance 9. K.D.'s Cab Ride

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Kenny Dorham: Afro-Cuban

Read "Afro-Cuban" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Quick and to the Point: An ageless recording of true historical import in all matters Latin and Jazz. Several basic and rather obvious reasons to check out this recording: 1. It is one of the earliest well-informed, conceived and arranged mergers of jazz and Afro- Cuban musical idioms. 2. ...

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'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: K.D.'s Blues (alternate); Autumn in New York; Monaco (alternate); N.Y. Theme; K.D.'s Blues; Hill's Edge; A Night In Tunisia; Who Cares (alternate); Royal RoostMexico City; 'Round About Midnight; Monaco; Who Cares?; My Heart Stood Still; Riffin'; Mexico City (alternate); The Prophet. (2-CD set)

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Kenny Dorham: 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia

Read "'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia" reviewed by Craig Jolley


Trumpeter Kenny Dorham played extensively with Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and other New York heavyweights of the 1950's and 60's. He was a hot player, but he never built up his technique to the point where he could cut the most daring passages like his contemporaries Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie ...

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Whistle Stop

Label: Jazz Images
Released: 2000
Track listing: 'Philly' Twist; Buffalo; Sunset; Whistle Stop; Sunrise In Mexico; Windmill; Dorham's Epitaph;

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The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions-Part 3

Read "The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions-Part 3" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Unless you've been out of town for many months, you're probably aware of what has become one of the most spirited jazz industry events in recent memory. Specifically, accomplished recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was asked by Toshiba-EMI in Japan to personally remaster a great number of the Blue Notes that he almost single-handedly recorded during ...

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Blues In Bebop

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1998

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Afro-Cuban

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1998

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Whistle Stop

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997


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