FEBRUARY 12

                   KENNY DORHAM

                 Jazz Contemporary

                   Recording Date:
                       February 11, 1960 tk 3,7,8,10

                       February 12, 1960  tk 1,4,5,6,9

                   Personnel:
                      Charles Davis    BS
                      Kenny Dorham   TP
                      Buddy Enlow     D
                      Jimmy Garrison B [2/11]
                      Steve Kuhn     P
                      Butch Warren   B [2/12]

                                                                                                    LINK Retired

Review by Scott Yanow

Originally on the Time label, this LP features the excellent (but always underrated) trumpeter Kenny Dorham heading a quintet that also includes baritonist Charles Davis, pianist Steve Kuhn, either Jimmy Garrison or Butch Warren on bass, and drummer Buddy Enlow. The results are not quite essential but everyone plays up to par, performing three of Dorham's originals plus "In Your Own Sweet Way," "Monk's Mood," and "This Love of Mine." It's fine hard bop, the modern mainstream music of the period.