Kenny Dorham – And the Jazz Prophets, Volume One (1956)

ABC-Paramount – ABC-122Rec. Date : April, 1956Stream this Album (YT only) Trumpet : Kenny DorhamBass : Sam JonesDrums : Arthur EdgehillPiano : Dick KatzTenor Sax : J.R. Monterose Billboard : 09/01/1956Score of 73 Ex-jazz Messenger Dorham in his first disk with his new group. The idiom is rugged post-bop, like the Messengers, but Dorham’s trumpet is heavily featured. J.R. Monterose is on tenor, Dick Katz on piano,

Mal Waldron Quintet – Mal-1 (1957)

Prestige – PRLP 7090Rec. Date : November 9, 1956 Piano : Mal WaldronAlto Sax : Gigi GryceBass : Julian EuellDrums : Arthur EdgehillTrumpet : Idrees Sulieman Listening to Prestige: #193Stream this Album Billboard : 05/27/1957Score of 77 For modernists who go for “thinking” jazz musicianship, this is a prize package. Front-line players Waldron on piano, Gigi Gryce on alto and Idrees Sulieman on trumpet, are all writers

Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell (1957)

Blue Note – BLP 1543Rec. Date : March 12, 1956, May 29, 1956, May 30, 1956 Guitar – Kenny BurrellBass : Oscar Pettiford, Paul Chambers, Sam JonesCongas : CándidoDrums : Shadow Wilson, Kenny Clarke, Arthur EdgehillPiano : Tommy Flanagan, Bobby TimmonsTenor Sax : Frank Foster, J.R. MonteroseTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Strictlyheadies : 02/20/2019Album is Not Streamable Audio : July, 1957Charles A. Robertson The second collection featuring Kenny Burrell is a most

Kenny Dorham – ‘Round About Midnight At The Café Bohemia (1957)

Blue Note – BLP 1524Rec. Date : May 31, 1956 Trumpet : Kenny DorhamBass : Sam JonesDrums : Arthur EdgehillGuitar : Kenny BurrellPiano : Bobby TimmonsTenor Sax : J.R. Monterose Strictlyheadies : 02/01/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 01/19/1957Score of 77 Dorham, original trumpet man in the Jazz Messenger group, is framed here with a group of up-and-coming but as yet not over-recorded