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Kenny Dorham
McKinley  Howard "Kenny" Dorham (August 30, 1924 –
Kenny Dorham
December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and
composer. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other
musicians, but he never received the kind of attention or public
recognition from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did.
For this reason, writer Gary Giddins said that Dorham's name has
become "virtually synonymous with underrated."[1] Dorham
composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa", which first appeared on
Joe Henderson's album Page One.

Contents Kenny Dorham at the Metropole Hotel in

Toronto, 1954.
Biography
Background information
Discography
As leader Birth name McKinley Howard
As sideman Dorham
References Born August 30, 1924
Fairfield, Texas, U.S.
Died December 5, 1972
Biography (aged 48)
Dorham was one of the most active bebop trumpeters. He played in New York City, New
the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and York, U.S.
Mercer Ellington and the quintet of Charlie Parker. He joined Genres Jazz, bebop,
Parker's band in December 1948.[2] He was a charter member of the mainstream jazz, hard
original cooperative Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman bop
with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Occupation(s) Musician, bandleader,
Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956. In composer
addition to sideman work, Dorham led his own groups, including the
Instruments Trumpet, vocals
Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz
Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Associated acts Art Blakey, Joe
Timmons on piano, bassist Sam Jones, and tenorman J. R. Henderson, Sonny
Monterose, with guest Kenny Burrell on guitar, recorded a live album Rollins, Thelonious
'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia in 1956 for Blue Note. Monk, Charlie Parker,
Abbey Lincoln, Hank
In 1963 Dorham added the 26-year-old tenor saxophonist Joe Mobley, Max Roach,
Henderson to his group, which later recorded Una Mas (the group Horace Silver
also featured a young Tony Williams). The friendship between the
two musicians led to a number of other albums, such as Henderson's Page One, Our Thing and In  'n  Out. Dorham
recorded frequently throughout the 1960s for Blue Note and Prestige Records, as leader and as sideman for
Henderson, Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Andrew Hill, Milt Jackson and others.

Dorham's later quartet consisted of some well-known jazz musicians: Tommy Flanagan (piano), Paul Chambers
(double bass), and Art Taylor (drums). Their recording debut was Quiet  Kenny for the Prestige Records' New Jazz
label, an album which featured mostly ballads. An earlier quartet featuring Dorham as co-leader with alto saxophone

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player Ernie Henry had released an album together under the name "Kenny Dorham/Ernie Henry Quartet." They
produced the album 2  Horns  /  2  Rhythm for Riverside Records in 1957 with double bassist Eddie Mathias and
drummer G.T. Hogan. In 1990 the album was re-released on CD under the name "Kenny Dorham Quartet featuring
Ernie Henry."[3][4]

During his final years Dorham suffered from kidney disease, from which he died on December 5, 1972, aged 48.

Discography

As leader
1953: Kenny Dorham Quintet (Debut)
1955: Afro-Cuban (Blue Note)
1956: 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (Blue Note)
1956: And The Jazz Prophets Vol. 1 (ABC-Paramount ABC-122)
1957: Jazz Contrasts (Riverside) featuring Sonny Rollins
1957: 2 Horns / 2 Rhythm (Riverside) featuring Ernie Henry
1958: This Is the Moment! (Riverside)
1959: Blue Spring (Riverside) with Cannonball Adderley
1959: Quiet Kenny (New Jazz)
1960: The Arrival of Kenny Dorham (JARO); reissued as The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (Xanadu, 1976)
1960: Jazz Contemporary (Time)
1960: Showboat (Time)
1961: Whistle Stop (Blue Note)
1961: Inta Somethin' (Pacific Jazz)
1962: Matador (United Artists)
1963: Una Mas (Blue Note)
1963: Scandia Skies (SteepleChase)
1963: Short Story (SteepleChase)
1964: Trompeta Toccata (Blue Note)

As sideman
With Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko at Top of the Gate (1968)

With Dave Bailey

Bash! (Jazzline, 1961) - reissued as Tommy Flanagan Trio And Sextet (Onyx/Xanadu, 1973) and under Dorham's
name as Osmosis (Black Lion, 1990)
With Andy Bey

Andy and the Bey Sisters (1959)

With The Birdland Stars

On Tour (2 volumes, RCA Victor 1956)

With Art Blakey

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1 (1955)

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia Volume 2 (1955)
With Rocky Boyd

Ease It (1961; aka West 42nd Street)

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With Tadd Dameron

Fontainebleau (1956)
With Lou Donaldson

Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1954)
With Matthew Gee

Jazz by Gee (Riverside, 1956)

With Herb Geller

Fire in the West (Jubilee 1957, Josie 1962); That Geller Feller (Fresh Sound, 2003)
With Benny Golson

The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)

With Barry Harris

Bull's Eye! (Prestige, 1968)

With Joe Henderson

Page One (1963)

Our Thing (1963)
In 'n Out (1964)
With Ernie Henry

Presenting Ernie Henry (Riverside, 1956)

Last Chorus (Riverside, 1956–57)
With Andrew Hill

Point of Departure (1964)

With Milt Jackson

Roll 'Em Bags (Savoy, 1949)

Invitation (1962)
With Clifford Jordan

Starting Time (Jazzland, 1961)

In the World (Strata-East, 1969 [1972])
With Harold Land

Eastward Ho! Harold Land in New York (Jazzland, 1960)

With Abbey Lincoln

That's Him! (Riverside, 1957)

It's Magic (1958)
Abbey Is Blue (1959)
With Jackie McLean

Vertigo (Blue Note, 1962)

With John Mehegan

Casual Affair (1959)

With Gil Mellé

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Gil's Guests (1956)

With Helen Merrill

You've Got a Date with the Blues (MetroJazz, 1959)

With Hank Mobley

Mobley's 2nd Message (1956)

Curtain Call (Blue Note, 1957)
With Thelonious Monk

Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1952)

With Oliver Nelson

Meet Oliver Nelson (New Jazz, 1959)

Zodiac (1968)
With Cecil Payne

Patterns of Jazz (Savoy, 1956)

Zodiac (Strata-East, 1968 [1973])
With Oscar Pettiford

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (ABC-Paramount, 1957)

With Max Roach

Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy, 1956)

Jazz in ¾ Time (EmArcy, 1957)
The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (EmArcy, 1958)
MAX (Argo, 1958)
With Sonny Rollins

Moving Out (Prestige, 1954)

Rollins Plays for Bird (Prestige, 1956)
Sonny Boy (Prestige, 1956 [1961])
With A. K. Salim

Pretty for the People (Savoy, 1957)

With Horace Silver

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, 1954)

With Cecil Taylor

Hard Driving Jazz (1958)

With Cedar Walton

Cedar! (Prestige, 1967)

With Randy Weston

Live at the Five Spot (United Artists, 1959)

With Barney Wilen

Barney (1959)
Un Temoin Dans La Ville (1959)
With Phil Woods

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Pairing Off (1956)

References
1. Freeman, Phil (January 15, 2013). "Spotlight: Doing the Philly Twist: Kenny Dorham's Whistle Stop" (http://www.bl
uenote.com/spotlight/doing-the-philly-twist-kenny-dorhams-whistle). bluenote.com. Blue Note Records.
2. Owens, Thomas (1996). Bebop. Oxford University Press. p. 111.
3. Yanow, Scott (2000). Bebop. Miller Freeman Books. pp. 79–81. ISBN 0-87930-608-4.
4. Listing (http://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Dorham-Quartet-featuring-Ernie-Henry-2-Horns2-Rhythm/release/246200
9) of the 2 Horns/2 Rhythm album on Discogs.com, (accessed December 17, 2014).

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