Kenny Dorham Festival – Big Band Edition: Jazz Musician in New York

About Kenny Dorham Festival – Big Band Edition

Kenny Dorham Festival – Big Band Edition is a large-ensemble project built around the music of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham, presented at Dizzy’s Club in New York City. The program adapts Dorham’s writing—rooted in hard bop but shaped by his ear for melody and rhythmic tension—into big-band arrangements that bring out its harmonic detail. Dorham’s work has often been discussed as under-credited, and this format makes the craft harder to overlook. The approach favors structure and line over flash.