Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa In The Bronx: Live From The Blue Morocco - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Japanese Remastered SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Kenny Dorham was a jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, born in Texas in 1924, who was always highly regarded and widely respected, without breaking into the upper echelons of the genre alongside high profile giants like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. Jazz writer Garry Giddins said that InchDorham's name has become 'virtually synonymous with 'underrated'Inch. Beginning his recording career in 1945 as the bebop revolution took hold, he recorded as a sideman with a host of major names, most notably Charlie Parker, until recording his first session leading his own band in 1953, for the Debut tag. This 2-CD collection comprises the complete original contents of four of his early albums as leader - InchThe Kenny Dorham QuintetInch on Debut, InchAfro-CubanInch and Inch'Round About Midnight - 'Live' At The Cafe BohemiaInch on Blue Note and InchKenny Dorham & The Jazz ProphetsInch on ABC-Paramount. He records with various quintet and sextet line-ups (expanded with percussion on InchAfro-CubaInch), which feature significant jazz names of the day, including Jimmy Heath, Walter Bishop, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, J.J. Johnson, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Oscar Pettiford, Bobby Timmons, Arthur Edgehill and more. Featuring a mixture of original compositions and standards, it showcases his qualities as both trumpeter and leader.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, artist, and musician who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. The result of an ongoing practice in the poetics of language reclamation and the aesthetics of relationship, Theory of Ice breaks open the intersections between politics, story, and song-revealing a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. Leanne is joined on the album by primary collaborators, Ansley Simpson and Nick Ferrio, and producer Jonas Bonetta (Evening Hymns). John K. Samson (The Weakerthans) contributes featured vocals to Surface Tension. I Pity The Country is a powerful new arrangement of Willie Dunn's song, most widely known as the first track on Native North America Vol 1. (Light In The Attic, 2014), the song's ongoing relevance a powerful indictment of the continuation and persistence of settler colonial violence in North America.Break UpOK IndictsViscositySurface TensionI Pity The CountryFailure Of MeltingThe WakeHead Of The Lake