Quiet Kenny

Kenny Dorham | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (October 8, 1991)
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YE7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Track Listings

1. Lotus Blossom

2. My Ideal

3. Blue Friday

4. Alone Together

5. Blue Spring Shuffle

6. I Had the Craziest Dream

7. Old Folks

8. Mack the Knife

Editorial Reviews

Recorded in 1959, this selection of ballads shows off the elegant beauty of the trumpeter's tone. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Sublime Kenny, July 6, 2006

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Johnny Thursday (NYC Metro Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quiet Kenny (Reis) (Audio CD)

From the Bebop Boys to the Jazz Prophets to Joey Henderson, Kenny came through on the cutting edge. This is Kenny's only single-horn quartet session. He probably could have made a dozen of them, but he was a giver and favored the two horn conversations of a quintet most frequently. This record, much like all of Kenny's stuff, is all about a balanced approach to material, and assurance. He hits the right notes quite often, and his compositions don't suffer one bit side by side to the other classics here. Did I mention soul? When you see a record like this you're immediately reminded of many many others with these players (Tommy Flanagan, A.T. & P.C.) in this vein, and are tempted to pass because you think it might be too similiar to them to justify yet another purchase. Don't do that. There really is only a finite number of things like this in existence, people, and they aren't making any more.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessentially Quiet Kenny, September 3, 2006

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quiet Kenny (Reis) (Audio CD)

"Quiet" is almost redundant, less descriptive of the session than of Kenny himself, who plays no differently here than he does in the explosive groups of Blakey or Silver. Thoughtful, playful, lyrical but never effusive, K.D. is, as always, the thinking person's trumpet player (or, as Dan Morgenstern calls him in the notes for this latest RVG edition, the most "poetic" of trumpet players).

The playing on the present disk is on a level with Kenny's best work elsewhere ("Whistle Stop," "Una Mass"), but there are two undeniable bonuses: Kenny's is the only horn, giving him more valuable time to tell his compelling stories; and the pianist is Tommy Flanagan, whose dynamically nuanced, carefully sculpted lines are the perfect match for the trumpet's exquisitely crafted statements.

Given more familiar trumpet styles, it can take a while for a new listener to "get" Kenny Dorham. Once you do, you simply can't get enough of him.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kenny D. is Deeelightful!, March 6, 2007

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JoeyD (los gatos, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quiet Kenny (Reis) (Audio CD)

This is a very beautiful recording by one of the most underated trumpet players in the history of jazz. On this wonderful album, Kenny leads a sax-free quartet (the only time he would be sans a partner on sax) and proves that he is more than capable of shouldering the load. This is arguably one of his finest recordings. I absolutely loved it!

Kenny D. is definitely worth mentioning in the same sentence with Brownie, Miles, Diz, Freddie H, etc... I don't think he ever received the amount of credit he so justly deserves. The same could be said for Donald Byrd as well.

By the way, Paul Chambers gives yet another stunning performance on bass!