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Kd: A Jazz Biography Hardcover - 2012

by Dave Oliphant


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Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem traces the story of the Texan's career performing with the greatest musicians of the bop and hard bop eras in jazz history--including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. Also discussing extensive traveling as a musician and his lamentably short-lived group the Jazz Prophets, this account demonstrates why Dorham remains something of a cult figure despite his premature death at age 48.

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  • Title Kd: A Jazz Biography
  • Author Dave Oliphant
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wings Press (TX)
  • Date 2012-04
  • ISBN 9780916727956 / 0916727955
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Jazz musicians - United States, Trumpet players - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011045237
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Foreword, 05/31/2012, Page 0

About the author

Dave Oliphant is a native Texan poet, a recently retired professor from the University of Texas-Austin, and the editor and publisher of Prickly Pear Press. He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Backtracking, Memories of Texas Towns and Cities, and Maria's Poems, as well as a collection of 16 essays entitled Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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