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Backgrounder: Kenny Dorham: 'Una Mas,' 1963

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Marc Myers
Jun 14, 2024
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The second to last studio album trumpeter Kenny Dorham released as a leader before he died in 1972 was Una Mas (One More Time). The Blue Note album features just three original songs and is one of his best.

An early adapter of bebop in the mid-1940s, Dorham was most famously in Charlie Parker's working quintet of 1948 and '49—the one that was broadcast l…

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