Kenny Dorham

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Joe Henderson · 1963

Deciphering the Message

Makaya McCraven · 2021

Rollins Plays For Bird

Sonny Rollins Quintet With Kenny Dorham And Max Roach · 1956

Blue Spring

Kenny Dorham Septet Featuring Cannonball Adderley · 1959

Kenny Dorham died in 1972. Decades later, an unreleased Blue Note tape of his was unearthed and layered with a new rhythm section for the 2021 album Deciphering the Message, giving the performance its first release only after his death.

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Joe Henderson · 1963

Page OnePage OneJoe Henderson · 1963 (1963) was HendersonJoe Hendersonジョー・ヘンダーソン's Blue Note debut. The album introduced 'Recorda Me' and 'Blue Bossa,' two tunes that quickly became standards and thrust Henderson to the center of the scene. McCoy Tyner was simultaneously deep in his Coltrane years.

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

Kelly Blue

Wynton Kelly · 1959

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

Blue Spring

Kenny Dorham Septet Featuring Cannonball Adderley · 1959

Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb played as one of the great piano trios. But the bond ran deeper than the bandstand: when Chambers died in 1969, Cobb recalled, Kelly sank into heavy drinking — he had loved Paul — and Kelly himself was gone by 1971.

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Deciphering the Message

Makaya McCraven · 2021

Contours

Sam Rivers · 1967

Speak No Evil

Wayne Shorter · 1966

Straight Life

Freddie Hubbard · 1970

The bass intro that defines Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay (1970) wasn't Hubbard's — bassist Ron Carter invented it on the spot because Freddie never brought the part. "Luckily, the right note hit at the right time," Carter said. The hook that became the song's signature was an improvisation forced by a missing chart.

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