Results for "Una Mas"

Article: The Jazz Files

Kenny Dorham: The Composer in the Horn - A Verified Chronology, 1953–1964

by Hank Hehmsoth
March 3, 2026

In jazz, a musician's sound is often discussed as if it were separate from the music on the page. With Kenny Dorham, the compositions tell the story as clearly as the trumpet does. Across the recordings made between '53 and '64, Dorham's originals trace a steady shift: from compact bebop logic to a leaner, more spacious ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Kenny Dorham: Una Mas, 1963

June 14, 2024

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, ...

Album

Una Mas

By Kenny Dorham

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Una Mas; Straight Ahead; Sao Paolo; If Ever I Would Leave You..

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Dorham: Una Mas

by Greg Simmons
November 22, 2011

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas was one of 1963's best records. The thought of hearing it reissued on ultra-high quality vinyl by the good folks at Music Matters should make jazz heads swoon. With its melding of hard-bop, bossa nova, and the blues, Una Mas is a prime example of the memorable vamps that Blue Note ...