Kenny Dorham played his trumpet with a pinched tone. It wasn't blisteringly hot or flabby but romantically taut and mildly piercing. The notes were like the dots on exclamation points—just distinct enough to make a statement. And he often made notes shimmer briefly, like a hovering bumblebee. He used this punctuating and shimmer technique to great effec…
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