Quiet Kenny (20 Bit Mastering) [Original recording remastered]

Quiet Kenny (20 Bit Mastering) [Original recording remastered]

Quiet Kenny (20 Bit Mastering) [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B00005A8AO

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

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Quiet Kenny
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Kenny D. is Deeelightful!
  • Quintessentially Quiet Kenny
  • Quite Sublime Kenny
 Quiet Kenny
Kenny Dorham
Manufacturer: Prestige
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EMGIHS
Release Date: 2006-03-21

Tracks:

  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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Kenny D. is Deeelightful!.......2007-03-07

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!

5 out of 5 stars Quintessentially Quiet Kenny.......2006-09-03

"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.

5 out of 5 stars Quite Sublime Kenny.......2006-07-07

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.
Quiet Kenny (20 Bit Mastering)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Manufacturer: Prestige
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

  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

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Review on Kenny Dorham's Quiet Kenny.......2001-01-30

This album is really just 42 minutes of really great music. For anyone who is familiar with Kenny's playing this album just reaffirms his reputation as having been one of the most talented and lyrical trumpet players in jazz. For anyone who is just finding about about Kenny Dorham "Quiet Kenny" gives a good idea of what to expect from this master: beautiful melodies, classic renditions of great standards, interesting original compositions, a soft, warm tone, and great accompaniment from Art Taylor, Paul Chambers, and Tommy Flanigan. The album includes the classic Dorham composition 'Lotus Blossom,' pretty versions of 'Old Folks,' 'Mack The Knife,' a haunting "Alone Together," and great playing throughout.
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    Manufacturer: Armou
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    Quiet Kenny
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Sophisticated
    • True masterpiece by an underrated bop genius
    		 Quiet Kenny
    Kenny Dorham
    Manufacturer: Ojc
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000000YE6
    Release Date: 1991-07-01

    Tracks:

    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

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Sophisticated.......2003-12-09

    As the other reviewers have said this is a very enjoyable album. The best tracks in my opinion being Dorham's own compositions that take up about half of the running time. The recording is a Van Gelder stereo studio recording that sounds very fresh with the 20 bit re-mastering. This is not a bop recording, the band never breaks into a sweat and the pace is mainly a funky swing with the addition of a couple of slow ballards. The album retains an air of unruffled sophistication throughout with excellent playing from all 4 musicians.

    5 out of 5 stars True masterpiece by an underrated bop genius.......2002-02-28

    I treasure this album for a long time.Because I always loved McKinley Dorham's amazing trumpet playing (he often sounds like he's playing a bugle,like another master,Clark Terry).There's a very special roundness,a curious sound full of dullness and comfort,and sweetness in his playing that has always seduced me in his approach of the very difficult art of blowing a trumpet.I feel like Kenny was nearer the great masters of the swing era than the other bop trumpet players.This session,recorded November 13,1959,and first issued as "quiet Kenny" with only 7 tracks ("Mack the knife" was missing"),is among the very great jazz records you have to own.It became complete for the first time on LP as "Kenny Dorham 1959"on Prestige 7754,in 1970.The quartet is a real all stars : Tommy Flanagan on piano,Paul Chambers on bass,and Art Taylor on drums."Lotus blossom" is a Dorham original,also recorded by Sonny Rollins as "Asiatic raes" on his "Newk's time" album on Blue Note.From the very beginning of this tune,what a perfect mastery and immense swing by Kenny Dorham! The great Tommy Flanagan (1930-2001) has a masterful solo.Art Taylor's drumming,as always,is superlative."My ideal" is certainly dedicated to Coleman Hawkins,who waxed an outstanding gem on this tune on December 4,1943.3Blue Friday",the longest track of this album (nine minutes long),is a very great blues,a minor keyed one,in the manner of Horace Silver,or Elmo Hope.Kenny builds his solo,during many choruses,with total mastery,with some reminiscences of Red Allen and Buck Clayton,and comes close to Tommy Fruscella's playing."Alone together" is one of the most dramatic and wonderful standards ever composed,and Kenny's short version ranks among the best renditions of this tune.His playing on this tune reminds me so much of Billie's vocals on this masterpiece.And it reminds me so much of Tadd Dameron's works.Please,listen to Tadd Dameron ! Chamber's walking bass introduces "Blue spring" (aka "Blue spring shuffle");another hard-bop blues,a kind of marching blues in the Jazz Messengers' manner.The rare "I had the craziest dream" is another gem by Kenny Dorham,and yes,he reminds me more and more of the great Clark Terry (born 1921)."Old folks" is the splendour you know,and nobody could miss such a tune.Kenny makes it his own,and swings lightly through the theme.Finally,the famous theme by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht,Satchmo's anthem,"Mack the knife" (also recorded as "Moritat" in a definitive session by Sonny Rollins),closes this extraordinary album.Don't miss it,this is a very important record in the jazz history,maybe Kenny Dorham's greatest record.An immense source of joy,between bebop and classic swing,a great work of art.
    Quiet Kenny
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Manufacturer: Jvc / Xrcd
    ProductGroup: Music
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    3. Blue Friday
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    5. Blue Spring Shuffle
    6. I Had the Craziest Dream
    7. Old Folks
    8. Mack the Knife

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Review on Kenny Dorham's Quiet Kenny.......2001-01-30

    This album is really just 42 minutes of really great music. For anyone who is familiar with Kenny's playing this album just reaffirms his reputation as having been one of the most talented and lyrical trumpet players in jazz. For anyone who is just finding about about Kenny Dorham "Quiet Kenny" gives a good idea of what to expect from this master: beautiful melodies, classic renditions of great standards, interesting original compositions, a soft, warm tone, and great accompaniment from Art Taylor, Paul Chambers, and Tommy Flanigan. The album includes the classic Dorham composition 'Lotus Blossom,' pretty versions of 'Old Folks,' 'Mack The Knife,' a haunting "Alone Together," and great playing throughout.
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          Manufacturer: Jvc/Sire
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          Release Date: 1998-04-07
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            Manufacturer: New Jazz
            ProductGroup: Music
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            Release Date: 2003-08-21

            Tracks:

            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

            Album Details

            Part of the 'masters of Jazz: The History Series 1949-1969'. 20 Bit Digitally Remastered.
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              Manufacturer: Jvc Victor
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

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              Release Date: 2002-01-23

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