Jazz Contemporary [SEP] performer
Jazz Contemporary
Jazz Contemporary is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Time label. The album features the recording debut of pianist Steve Kuhn.
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "The results are not quite essential but everyone plays up to par... It's fine hard bop, the modern mainstream music of the period".
Track listing.
1. "A Waltz" - 5:34
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, New Orleans music magazine "Offbeat" named Andrews their Performer of the Year. He also garnered honors as Best Contemporary Jazz Performer.
In 2010, Trombone Shorty's album "Backatown" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
On May 19, 2012, Andrews received the President's Medal from Tulane University President Scott Cowen at the university's Unified Commencement Ceremony at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, in recognition of his community service work with the Horns for Schools Project. He