Mentions of Kenny Kirkland

5 mentions

Statements by others that mention Kenny Kirkland, drawn from interviews, books, and other sources.

Call Kenny Kirkland, man. Jeff Tain Watts should be the drummer.

Recalling what he told his brother Wynton in 1982, when Wynton was forming his first band and asked whom he knew.

See Kenny and Tain, you couldn't get them to rehearse. If you called a rehearsal, they wouldn't even show up.

On making the Kenny Kirkland memorial album Requiem, describing how neither man would ever turn up to rehearse.

So, now Kenny's dead y'all wanna rethink the band. You guys are idiots, man.

His reply to a jazz writer who, at the Requiem session just after Kirkland's death, said critics were starting to rethink the Wynton Marsalis band.

I love my band. Kenny Kirkland and Jeff Watts are the greatest young musicians on the scene, and they get no credit.

In 1984, on his own quintet with Kenny Kirkland and Jeff Watts.

Whatever chord Kenny plays, that's what chord it is. If Jeff plays a certain beat, the piece becomes in that time.

In 1984, explaining how his band improvises, using Kirkland and Watts as the example.