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Kevin Dorn

Born in New York City, Kevin took up drumming at the age of 14. Since then, he has become one of the busiest drummers in traditional jazz. A solid timekeeper in the tradition of Cliff Leeman, Kevin's exciting career has included performances with artists such as Dan Barrett, Ed Polcer, Johnny Varro, Bob Wilber, Dan Levinson, Mark Shane, Terry Blaine, Howard Alden, Jon-Erik Kellso, Warren Vaché, and Allan Vaché. Kevin has performed with The Loren Schoenberg Big Band, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, The Flying Neutrinos, The Flipped Fedoras, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, The Manhattan Rhythm Kings, Banu Gibson and the New Orleans Hot Jazz, and many others. Kevin has played at jazz festivals and jazz parties throughout the country, including the JVC Jazz Festival, Jazz at Chautauqua, the Atlanta Jazz Party, the Colorado Springs Jazz Party, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the Los Angeles Sweet and Hot Music Festival, and the Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland

The Song in Our Soul

By Mark Shane

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Keep a Song in Your Soul; Delta Bound; In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town; Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up!; El Rado Scuffle; Roses in December; It’s Been So Long; The Day You Came Along; Rompin’ in ’44; Sweetheart O’ Mine; River, Stay ‘Way from My Door.

The Palomar Trio: The Song in Our Soul

by Jack Bowers
January 24, 2024

On The Song in Our Soul, the members of the Palomar Trio look over their collective shoulders to a time when swing was king and musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Gene Krupa, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and many of their peers were household names. In fact, the trio ...

Molly Ryan: Sweepin' the Blues Away

by Jack Bowers
March 28, 2023

New York City-based vocalist Molly Ryan makes an auspicious impression from the outset on her latest album, leading her splendid back-up quartet through the charming song, “Get Yourself a New Broom (and Sweep the Blues Away)" a light-hearted but little- known treasure written in 1938 by Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen. Ryan seems ...

Turtle Bay Records Launches On The Back Porch Video Series Spotlighting NYC Jazz Musicians

March 4, 2023

NYC jazz record label Turtle Bay Records has announced the launch of their new video series, On the Back Porch. The series features eight talented jazz musicians from around the US, with in-depth interviews and their acoustic performances of early jazz music standards. Shot on the back porch at the home of TBR Founder and Executive ...

Sweepin' the Blues Away

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Get Yourself a New Broom (and sweep the blues away); The Folks Who Live On the Hill; I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket; You and I; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; I'll Sit Right On The Moon; I Wonder Who's Kissing Him Now; You Turned the Tables On Me; A Cottage For Sale; Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy Day); If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)

You're IN the Band - The Real Experience of Playing in a Traditional/Hot Jazz Band

by Nicholas F. Mondello
October 30, 2016

You're IN the Band Cynthia Sayer 128 Pages ISBN: #978-0-578-17971-1 Cynthia Sayer Music 2016 Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, bandleader and music educator, Cynthia Sayer's name might not be a bell-ringer, however I'd wager that you've probably heard her Hall of Fame banjo (Yes, there is one!) playing on film soundtracks, ...

Harry Allen in Zoot and Al Tribute on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

September 2, 2010

Beginning today, public radio's Riverwalk Jazz begins streaming “Zoot & Al: The Brotherhood of Prez." Featured on the program are Ron Hockett, the regular reedman in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, and Harry Allen. Stream this show now in Windows Media. The late Gene Lees wrote: “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect ...

Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 21, 2010

[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...

How To Completely Miss The Point Of Music

by AAJ Staff
January 14, 2009

By Kevin Dorn Step 1: Take stylistic labels very seriously. Study all the various names for different styles of jazz, such as Mainstream, Traditional, Dixieland, Swing, Bebop, Hard bop, Post-bop, etc. Before you play, decide in which style you are going to perform. If possible, attend a class at a music school to learn ...