Archives: April 2025

• Kenny Dorham MATADOR anniversary

  April 15 is another important date for Kenny Dorham: it's the anniversary of his 1962 album "Matador." This album features a unique quintet lineup with Jackie McLean on alto sax, Bobby Timmons on piano, Teddy Smith on bass, and J.C. Moses on drums. From this album we now have Kenny's composition El Matador up on jazzleadsheets.com. Fascinating and ahead of its time, this may be Kenny's only song in 5/4.

  In addition to El Matador, we're also releasing four songs from Kenny's iconic 1961 Blue Note album "Whistle Stop;" all seven of this album's songs are now up on jazzleadsheets.com. The new ones are Buffalo, Sunset, Whistle Stop and Sunrise In Mexico. The recorded quintet arrangements are available for all four.

• New Kenny Dorham recording released

  April 12 is "Record Store Day." This year Resonance Records is releasing Kenny Dorham's "Blue Bossa In The Bronx - Live at the Blue Morocco."
  This was recorded in a club so you're hearing a working band environment. Besides "Blue Bossa," there is also Kenny's "Blue Friday." This second song was also originally on Kenny's "Quiet Kenny" album. On the new album, this second song is in F-minor. On the original recording it was down a 5th in B-flat-minor. It's interesting to compare how the melody changes registers in the new recording. Next week look for another Kenny Dorham recording release anniversary.

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