{"id":2428,"date":"2011-03-14T01:05:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T08:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:16:46","slug":"why-kenny-dorham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/why-kenny-dorham\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kenny Dorham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dorham-Kenny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2429\" title=\"Dorham, Kenny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dorham-Kenny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dorham-Kenny.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dorham-Kenny-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dorham-Kenny-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Because it has been too long since you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard him, and because these two videos are\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby all accounts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe only ones in existence that show him playing. His rhythm section at the Golden Circle in Stockholm in 1963 was Goran Lindberg, piano; Goran Peterson, bass; and Leif Wennerstron, drums. Please disregard the lead-in advertisement and the dreadful picture quality. Let us simply be grateful that these films exist.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fj2j_v_Nbxg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dorham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solo in this brief second clip is some of his most astonishingly beautiful playing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pu7mTRrfvw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kenny Dorham died in 1972 at the age of 48. The album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlues-Be-Bop-Kenny-Dorham%2Fdp%2FB00000DC2O%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1300073442%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blues In Bebop<\/em><\/a> has his early work with Billy Eckstine, Bud Powell, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, in that order. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOur-Thing-Joe-Henderson%2Fdp%2FB00004YTWI%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1300076554%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Our Thing<\/em><\/a>, a basic repertoire item, documents his 1963 partnership with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it has been too long since you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard him, and because these two videos are\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby all accounts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe only ones in existence that show him playing. His rhythm section at the Golden Circle in Stockholm in 1963 was Goran Lindberg, piano; Goran Peterson, bass; and Leif Wennerstron, drums. 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