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Kenny Dorham

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 76: The Arrival of Joe Henderson (1963 – 1967)

    Aug 31st, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Hutcherson, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Larry Young, McCoy Tyner

    Joe Henderson Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is “…an irresistibly lucid player, whose adroitness in conjuring stark and swirling riffs contributed immeasurably to two of the most durable jazz hits of the ’60s, Horace Silver’s ‘Song for My Father’ and […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 75: The Hard Bop / Avant-Garde Synergy of Andrew Hill (1963 – 1965)

    Aug 24th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Woods, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Richard Davis, Tony Williams

    Andrew Hill Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label was best known for music on the Art Blakey – Horace Silver axis. As Ted Gioia has noted “…other, less radical Blue Note releases showed that there could be […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 65: Hard Bop Trumpet, Part 2 (1962 – 1964)

    Jun 15th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Blue Mitchell, Dizzy Reece, Joe Henerson, Kenny Dorham

    Dizzy Reece This is the final hour of a four-part sequence featuring important tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue with the Trumpet Players, Part 2, featuring lesser-known players – unsung veteran Kenny Dorham who recorded with both Dizzy and Bird in the 1940s, London-based […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova (1958 – 1963)

    May 4th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, João Gilberto, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Luiz Bonfá, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter

    João Gilberto – Antônio Carlos Jobim – Stan Getz Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, the Brazilian music Bossa Nova (Portugese for “new trend” or “new wave”) found its way into American jazz in the early 1960s, becoming […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 40: Sons of the Jazz Messengers (1956 – 1964)

    Dec 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Albert "Tootie" Heath, Art Blakey, Barry Harris, Billy Higgins, Bobby Timmons, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Jymie Merrit, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, The Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Kelly

    Wayne Shorter – Art Blakey – Lee Morgan In 1956, with Horace Silver’s departure, Art Blakey inherited the Jazz Messengers. Over the next five years, the Jazz Messengers took part in recording sessions that have resulted in almost 40 live and studio recordings. Also in this period, Blakey collaborated with players who became the stars […]

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