Kenny Dorham

Kenny Dorham 1924年出生于德州， 40年代前往紐約，活躍于Dizzy Gillespie，Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton和Mercer Ellington等樂團(tuán)， 并因為他安靜低調(diào)的小號吹奏風(fēng)格獲得了“Quiet Kenny”的稱號， 1948年年之后的3年間他取代了邁爾斯戴維斯成為了查理帕克的小號手。進(jìn)入50年代，在和Thelonious Monk的合作之后，Kenny Dorham和Art Blakey, Horace Silver共同組建了傳奇的爵士使者，隨后在克利福德布朗車禍不幸之后，取代了他和Max Roach共同領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的樂團(tuán)的位置。 50年代末和整個60年代，是Kenny Dorham的黃金時候。特別是和Joe Henderson，Hank Mobley等樂手的合作，在Blue Note下錄制了一系列包括下面要介紹的Whistle Stop在內(nèi)的經(jīng)典硬波譜唱片。 60年代末，他成為Downbeat雜志一名富思想性的樂評家。不幸的是， 1972年12月死于腎病，年僅38歲Kenny Dorham作為一名頂尖的波譜小號手和非凡的爵士樂作曲家，是上個世紀(jì)最值得懷念的爵士音樂家之一，在這里并不是因為他的薄命值得同情和緬懷而進(jìn)入了我的波譜夢幻陣容，而是因為他的音樂相比較Miles的冷酷，Art Farmer的溫暖以及Lee Morgan的理性，身為樂手，樂團(tuán)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)和編排者和偉大的作曲家，Kenny Dorham簡潔低調(diào)的抒情敘事的波譜風(fēng)格為人們所偏愛。
by Scott Yanow
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 Blakeys Jazz Messengers and for a short time led a group called the Jazz Prophets, which recorded on Blue Note. After Clifford Browns 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.