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Kenny Dorham Quintet (album)

Kenny Dorham Quintet
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Studio album by Kenny Dorham
Released 1954
Recorded December 15, 1953
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 39:00
Label Debut
DLP-9
Kenny Dorham chronology
Kenny Dorham Qunitet
(1953)
Afro-Cuban
(1955)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 4/5 stars

Kenny Dorham Quintet is a jazz studio album by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. It was his debut album as a leader and was released in 1953, on the Debut label as DLP-9 and originally included only tracks 1 to 3 and 5 to 7. Tracks 4 and 8 were released as bonus tracks on 12-inch LP OJC-113, whilst the CD release featured the previously unreleased tracks 9, 10 and 11. According to the liner notes on the CD back cover "Label head Charles Mingus decided not to release them at the time and they languished in the tape vault for almost 40 years, until their fortuitous discovery in late 1992".

Track 1-9 recorded December 15, 1953 in New York City. Tracks 10, 11 recorded sometime in 1953.


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