K.D.'s Motion comes from the first session where the music was basically straight ahead swing. The "Afro-Cuban" album was assembled from two recording sessions. However, the " Afro-Cuban" session (with four out of five members of the Jazz Messengers) actually falls in between the Jazz Messengers' first recording which was under the leadership of Horace Silver (two sessions: November 13, 1954, and February 6, 1955). The "Jazz Messengers" everyone is more familiar with recorded under that cooperative group name in November of 1955: " The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia" (see Prince Albert). His actual first recording for that label was in 1947 as a member of Art Blakey's Messengers, an octet. This is Kenny Dorham's second album as a leader but his first as leader for Blue Note. If you don't have the luxury of a three-horn front line, it works great in a quartet format. There aren't a lot of horn harmonies, but enough to call for separate second and third part editions. Once you've mastered it, it sure feels great.Īs with most of Dorham's compositions, we'll often give you a condensed score edition (recommended for pianists and drummers), and, as in this case, a separate Bass part which clarifies the bass player's important role of holding everything together.Īfter the head is played twice, there's an eight-measure Interlude section: the first soloist solos over punctuated sustained rhythm section modulations that climax in a break for the soloist. You definitely need to hear it before you try to read it, because it looks super complicated. blues melody with a super-slick laid back rhythmic figure going into the third measure of the melody. Our audio excerpt starts with the intro, where the three-part harmonized horn section plays tutti figures with rhythm section before the rhythm section starts playing back beats behind the horn line.
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