Inta Somethin' (High Definition Remaster 2023) Kenny Dorham

• 1 Us (Remastered 2023) 07:12
• 2 It Could Happen To You (Remastered 2023) 06:00
• 3 Let's Face The Music (Remastered 2023) 06:08
• 4 No Two People (Remastered 2023) 06:56
• 5 Lover Man (Remastered 2023) 04:59
• 6 San Francisco Beat (Remastered 2023) 07:11
• Total Runtime 38:26

Info for Inta Somethin' (High Definition Remaster 2023)

Live at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, at the close of 1961. Jackie Mac is in terrific form. Tearing version of Una Mas a year before the Blue Note. Leroy Vinnegar, Walter Bishop, Art Taylor.

Composer of “Blue Bossa,” one of the most popular jazz standards of all time, trumpeter Kenny Dorham (1924-1972) was a rather neglected and little-known figure during his lifetime. Decades later, not much has changed. Greatly overshadowed by the stardom of Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro, this underrated bebop giant was nevertheless a highly talented musician who performed with some of the most remarkable players of the era. He recorded with Bud Powell; was a regular member of the Charlie Parker quintet (they toured Paris) and replaced the late Clifford Brown in the Max Roach quintet in 1956. Presented here is his splendid quintet LP Inta Somethin’, on which he shares the frontline with alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, with whom he would collaborate on two further occasions, the 1962 LPs Matador and Hipnosis.

"In a three star review in the May 10, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine noted jazz critic John. S. Wilson stated: "The most interesting aspect of this disc is the assortment of views it give of McLean going through a phase in which he seems to be absorbing some John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy influences."

Kenny Dorham, trumpet (except tracks 3 and 5)
Jackie McLean, alto saxophone (except track 2)
Walter Bishop Jr., piano
Leroy Vinnegar, bass
Art Taylor, drums

Recorded November 13, 1961 at The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco

Digitally remastered

Kenny Dorham
Throughout his career, Kenny Dorham was almost famous for being underrated since he was consistently overshadowed by Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan. Dorham was never an influential force himself but a talented bop-oriented trumpeter and an excellent composer who played in some very significant bands. In 1945, he was in the orchestras of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine, he recorded with the Be Bop Boys in 1946, and spent short periods with Lionel Hampton and Mercer Ellington. During 1948-1949, Dorham was the trumpeter in the Charlie Parker Quintet. After some freelancing in New York in 1954, he became a member of the first version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and for a short time led a group called the Jazz Prophets, which recorded on Blue Note. After Clifford Brown's death, Dorham became his replacement in the Max Roach Quintet (1956-1958) and then he led several groups of his own. He recorded several fine dates for Riverside (including a vocal album in 1958), New Jazz, and Time, but it is his Blue Note sessions of 1961-1964 that are among his finest. Dorham was an early booster of Joe Henderson (who played with his group in 1963-1964). After the mid-'60s, Kenny Dorham (who wrote some interesting reviews for Down Beat) began to fade and he died in 1972 of kidney disease. Among his many originals is one that became a standard, "Blue Bossa." (Scott Yanow). Source: Blue Note Records.

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