Despite being an original member of The Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham is overshadowed by the trumpeters that came after him in the Jazz Messengers lineup; like Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard. The fact of the matter is that Kenny Dorham’s history goes back to the burgeoning of bebop. He played with Billy Eckstine’s big band. The talent that passed through Eckstine is mind boggling. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, and Art Blakey were some of the big names that honed their skills with Eckstine. Dorham was one of these men, and the names listed were his contemporaries.
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