View basket “Presents Charles Mingus” has been added to your basket. Matador Kenny Dorham SKU: AIMX6042 Barcode: 856276002381 59.00 £59.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impex Records Released Date: 28th February 2022 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Matador quantity Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info All-analog mastering from the original master tapes “A classic among jazz connoisseurs.” — Allmusic 180-gram vinyl repressing of this 1962 album from the jazz great. Kenny Dorham’s Matador can safely claim the all too common distinction of being a classic among jazz connoisseurs while virtually unknown to the casual listener. Dorham is joined here by Jackie McLean, Bobby Timmons, Teddy Smith, and J.C. Moses, all of whom deliver outstanding performances. More than anything, this session is perhaps best known for including a stunning version of McLean’s composition “Melody for Melonae,” used less than a month earlier on his groundbreaking Blue Note LP Let Freedom Ring. For this session, though, the tune is renamed “Melanie” and, if not better, this version at least rivals the take under McLean’s leadership. For starters, the addition of another horn adds some tonal depth to the proceedings, a situation arguably lacking in the tune’s earlier recording. Also of note is what has to be Bobby Timmons’ most intense moment on record. One rarely has the opportunity to hear Timmons dig and scrape as hard as he does during this solo, and his barely audible vocal accompaniment (…a la Bud Powell) only helps to prove this point. Artist Kenny Dorham Genre Jazz Label Impex Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A: 1. El Matador 2. Melanie - Part 1 3. Melanie - Part 2 4. Melanie - Part 3 5. Smile Side B: 1. Beautiful Love 2. Prelude 3. 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