Banks, a very fine trumpet player who teaches at UofL's jazz school, leads a quintet playing music of one of his idols, trumpet great Kenny Dorham. They'll play some great tunes including Dorham's signature Blue Bossa, Una Mas and Prince Albert (his classic take on All the Things You Are). A great night of soulful hardbop music by some of the best jazz musicians in town.
Ansyn Banks....................................Trumpet
Tim Whalen......................................Tenor Sax
Diego Lyra........................................Piano
Tyrone Wheeler................................Bass
Terry O'Mahoney..............................Drums
Here's some more info on Kenny Dorham:
Trumpeter/composer Kenny Dorham was very much on the jazz scene from the mid-1940s through most of the 1960s. He worked and recorded with all the major figures in the modern jazz movement, which includes the legendary Billy Eckstine big band, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach as well as Kenny Clarke, Sonny Stitt, Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson and many other giants of that period.
Dorham, known as K.D., continued in the '50s and '60s to play and record with the who's who of the hard bop era as well, developing important associations with Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson and so many more. Always kept in the highest regard by the musicians he worked with, Kenny never got the public attention that he deserved. Jackie McLean says it very well: "Kenny during his whole lifetime never got the accolades and never got the roses that he should have received for all that he gave us."