Kenny Dorham

American musician
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Also known as: McKinley Howard Dorham
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Byname of:
McKinley Howard Dorham
Born:
August 30, 1924, Fairfield, Texas, U.S.
Died:
December 5, 1972, New York, New York (aged 48)

Kenny Dorham (born August 30, 1924, Fairfield, Texas, U.S.—died December 5, 1972, New York, New York) was an American jazz trumpeter, a pioneer of bebop noted for the beauty of his tone and for his lyricism. Dorham began playing trumpet in high school, attended Wiley College (Marshall, Texas), and was on a U.S. Army boxing team in 1942. In 1945–48 he played in a series of big bands, including those of Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, and Lionel Hampton, before joining Charlie Parker’s quintet (1948–49). A cofounder of the cooperative Jazz Messengers quintet (1955–56), he played in the Max Roach quintet ...(100 of 228 words)