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Kenny Dorham was a solid and forward-thinking modernist when he emerged in the mid-to late 1940s. The trumpeter was overshadowed throughout his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard, and became the epitome of the word "underrated." Dorham never recorded as a leader for Savoy other than co-leading the Be Bop Boys with altoist Sonny Stitt, so this single CD is just a sampling of his sideman appearances. Definitely not for completists since all but the Bebop Boys date issued here are incomplete, one wonders who the disc is aimed at, particularly since Dorham's most significant work was made a little later on for Blue Note. The trumpeter is heard with the Billy Eckstine Orchestra playing "The Jitney Man"; performing eight numbers (plus two alternate takes) with the Be Bop Boys (a quintet also including altoist Stitt and pianist Bud Powell); on three songs with a band headed by vibraphonist Milt Jackson and including the pioneer jazz French horn player Julius Watkins; on three tunes from a February 12, 1949 broadcast by the Charlie Parker Quintet (and available in much more complete form elsewhere), and on four of the selections from a 1956 album by baritonist Cecil Payne. The bop and hard bop music heard throughout this CD is consistently enjoyable, but the reissue is a bit of a frivolity. The Be Bop Boys date should have been coupled with some other unrelated all-star sessions instead, with the other Dorham sideman dates being reissued in full in more logical sets.
© Scott Yanow /TiVo
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Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Earl Hines, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer - Gerald Valentine, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Bud Powell, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Bud Powell, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Walter Gilbert Fuller, ComposerLyricist - Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - RAY BROWN, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer - Gil Fuller, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Bud Powell, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Sonny Stitt, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Sonny Stitt, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Bud Powell, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Bud Powell, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Milt Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Milt Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Kenny Clarke, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Charlie Parker, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Charlie Parker, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Randy Weston, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Cecil Payne, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer - Duke Jordan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Cecil Payne, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Herb Abramson, Producer, Recording Producer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Teddy Reig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
Kenny Dorham was a solid and forward-thinking modernist when he emerged in the mid-to late 1940s. The trumpeter was overshadowed throughout his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard, and became the epitome of the word "underrated." Dorham never recorded as a leader for Savoy other than co-leading the Be Bop Boys with altoist Sonny Stitt, so this single CD is just a sampling of his sideman appearances. Definitely not for completists since all but the Bebop Boys date issued here are incomplete, one wonders who the disc is aimed at, particularly since Dorham's most significant work was made a little later on for Blue Note. The trumpeter is heard with the Billy Eckstine Orchestra playing "The Jitney Man"; performing eight numbers (plus two alternate takes) with the Be Bop Boys (a quintet also including altoist Stitt and pianist Bud Powell); on three songs with a band headed by vibraphonist Milt Jackson and including the pioneer jazz French horn player Julius Watkins; on three tunes from a February 12, 1949 broadcast by the Charlie Parker Quintet (and available in much more complete form elsewhere), and on four of the selections from a 1956 album by baritonist Cecil Payne. The bop and hard bop music heard throughout this CD is consistently enjoyable, but the reissue is a bit of a frivolity. The Be Bop Boys date should have been coupled with some other unrelated all-star sessions instead, with the other Dorham sideman dates being reissued in full in more logical sets.
© Scott Yanow /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:12:24
- Main artists: Kenny Dorham
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Savoy
- Genre: Jazz
© 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1998 Savoy Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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