Speculate – Kenny Dorham

This uptempo song originally written for Max Roach's quintet is a workout for the whole band, with a head full of rhythm section stop-time. Changes are similar to Tadd Dameron's Our Delight but with a rhythm changes bridge. Sextet and quintet arrangements are available.

Kenny Dorham

August 30, 1924 – December 15, 1972

Trumpeter/composer Kenny Dorham was very much on the jazz scene from the mid-1940s through most of the 1960s. He worked and recorded with all the major figures in the modern jazz movement, which includes the legendary Billy Eckstine big band, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach as well as Kenny Clarke, Sonny Stitt, Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson and many other giants of that period. Read more...

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