KENNY DORHAM レコード& CD

Review: Trumpeter Kenny Dorham has a wealth of albums to his name and many of them are regarded as classics. This one, Jazz Contrasts, was recorded in 1957 and released on the Riverside label. NewLand now has the rights to a full reissue and presents it on nice heavyweight vinyl with an insert. Across just six tracks it strikes an indelible style with all of the music newly remastered. It features Sonny Rollins on tenor sax and Betty Glamann on harp while Hank Jones plays piano and Oscar Pettiford plays bass with the legend Max Roach on sticks.

Review: Matador is something of a forgotten masterpiece that gets a deserving deluxe treatment here with an all-analogue reissue on nice and heavy 180 gram vinyl. Released back in 1963 by passionate jazz players, trumpeter Kenny Dorham and alto talent Jackie McLean, the energetic album also features spirited performances from Bobby Timmons on piano, and the locked-in rhythm section of Teddy Smith on bass and J.C. Moses on drums. There is frenetic interplay between all, with loose and swinging keys and real spontaneity resulting in hugely expressive and energetic sounds. Remarkably, the whole album was recorded in just one day in 1962 and brims with rawness and realness.