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  • Kenny Dorham in 1960

    * הוא ניגן עם כולם: עם PARKER, DIZZY, MONK, ROLLINS, BLAKEY, ROACH, STTIT, CANN

  • Live at Cafe Bohemia: Hardbop in the Heart of Greenwich Village

    In the mid-1950s Cafe Bohemia was one of the most happening jazz clubs in New York City—a Greenwic

  • Turn Out the Stars V. III: More Jazz Elegies

    This Memorial Day weekend Night Lights pays tribute to departed musicians with another program of ja

    • Biography Kenny Dorham

    Kenny Dorham
    McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30, 1924 - December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham was one of the most active bebop trumpeters. He played in the big bands of Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Mercer Ellington and the quintet of Charlie Parker. He was a charter member of the original cooperative Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956. In addition to sideman work, he led his own groups, including the Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano, bassist Sam Jones and tenorman J.R. Monterose with guest Kenny Burrell on guitar, can be heard on the 1956 Blue Note live album Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia. I

    Discography

    Whistle Stop
    Whistle Stop


    Kenny Dorham Quintet
    Kenny Dorham Quintet


    The Art of the Ballad
    The Art of the Ballad


    Una Mas
    Una Mas


    Inta Somethin'
    Inta Somethin'


    'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
    'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2


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