O cantor, compositor e trompetista de jazz McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham nasceu em Fairfield, Texas, no dia 30 de agosto de 1924.
Trompetista moderno da época central do jazz, Kenny Dorham foi um dos jazzman mais solicitados pelas pequenas formações do bebop. Com uma técnica muito eficaz e espontânea, que lhe permite fazer incursões por toca a escala melódica, especializando neste fraseado rápido e quebrado, típico dos hoppers.
Dorham começou como pianista, mas se dedicou muito cedo ao estudo do trompete: o aprendizado se deu na “Wiley College Band” com Russell Jacquet, irmão do mais famoso Illinois. Atuou com Dizzy Gillespie em 1945, com BilIy Eckstine no ano seguinte, com Lionel Hampton em 1947, com Mercer Ellington um ano depois e com Charlie Parker, a experiência fundamental em sua vida, entre 1948-50.
O fato de alternar big bands com os pequenos grupos de boppers. Fez com que adquirisse uma linguagem moderna e pessoal, embora inspirado em modelos muito concretos. Freelancer até 1955, quando entrou para o Jazz Messengers, de Art Blakey e depois para o grupo de Max Roach, em substituição a Clifford Brown.
Kenny Dorham pertence ao grande filão dos inovadores do estilo do trompete, dominado durante muitos anos, pela forte personalidade de Louis Armstrong. Seus modelos foram Gillespie, Miles Davis e Clifford Brown.
Em algumas ocasiões se deixou levar por um excesso de exibicionismo, buscando efeitos certamente alheios à lógica jazzística, tendência esta que explica também a razão de sua posterior inclinação pelo rock. Tudo isso não lhe impediu, no entanto, expressar-se com uma sonoridade e uma linha melódica que lembra o Davis dos melhores tempos.
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American jazz trumpeter, singer and composer McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham was born on August 30,1924 in Fairfield,Texas.
Dorham was one of the most active bebop trumpeters. He played in the big bands of Billy Eckstine,Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton e Mercer Ellington and the quintet of Charlie Parker He was a charter member of the original cooperative Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956. In addition to sideman work, he led his own groups, including the Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano, bassist Sam Jones and tenorman J.R. Monterose with guest Kenny Burrell on guitar, recorded a live album Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia in 1956 for Blue Note.
In 1963 Dorham added the 26-year-old tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson to his group, which later recorded Una Mas (the group 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 sixties 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 talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, his name has become (in the words of writer Gary Giddins) "virtually synonymous with 'underrated.'"
During his final years Dorham suffered from kidney disease, from which he died on December 5 1972, aged just 48.
He composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa" which appears on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
During his final years Dorham suffered from kidney disease, from which he died on December 5 1972, aged just 48.
He composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa" which appears on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
Trumpeter Kenny Dorham passed away on December, 1972.
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