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Kenny Barron |
view all recordings Kenny Barron is one of the most respected pianists in jazz, who has worked with many of the great musicians over the past 40 years.
After moving to New York in 1961 he freelanced with leading musicians of the day, including James Moody, Lee Morgan, Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson. Moody recommended him to Dizzy Gillespie, and Kenny replaced Lalo Schifrin in Dizzy's quintet, staying for four years from 1962-6. Tours and recordings with Gillespie brought Kenny international notice. He spent four years with Freddie Hubbard, from 1966-70, and five with Yusef Lateef from 1970-75. The following year he joined the Ron Carter quartet, staying until it broke up in 1980.
Since 1973 he has been a full-time instructor at Rutgers University, teaching theory, keyboard harmony and piano. In the 1980s he co-led with Charlie Rouse the group Sphere, which included Buster Williams and drummer Ben Riley. An inventive, consistent and very versatile performer, Kenny is in constant demand as a sideman and has made well over fifty albums with other leaders, but has also led and recorded with numerous groups of his own.
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Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels
(From BillBoard review of latest IPO release)
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have been both revered and sublimated by critics and listeners during their long and sometimes obscured careers. Make no mistake, though -- they are great musicians who somehow do not get the credit they deserve as true jazz masters. When Daniels has played more commercially oriented music, he's branded a sellout, while Kellaway's profile is so low-key, he's practically off the radar except when releasing a recording. Fact is, Daniels is as limber, facile, tuneful, and literate as any clarinet player on the contemporary scene, while Kellaway's understated brilliance is balanced by a sense of wonder and empowerment tempered by a veteran's common sense and deep wisdom. Both have made important strides in recent years to change minds and hearts with several very fine efforts in the modern mainstream idiom, but these duets recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles have to be a high watermark for them, individually and together... This is a wondrous duet date featuring extraordinary musicians taking chances and thankfully succeeding on all levels, not the least of which are in the enviable elements of pace, placement, and depth.
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