RE Hard Driving Jazz: - I read - and I hope it wasn't somehwere as obvious as the reissue's liner notes - that Cecil wanted Ted Curson as his 'compromise' trumpet player for this session. The peripatetic producer Tom Wilson was at the helm for UA and ended up insisting he accept the slightly truculent Kenny Dorham for the date. Sunny Murray is right that Dorham never really fits at all, but that Louis Hayes surprisingly, does
RE Hard Driving Jazz: - I read - and I hope it wasn't somehwere as obvious as the reissue's liner notes - that Cecil wanted Ted Curson as his 'compromise' trumpet player for this session. The peripatetic producer Tom Wilson was at the helm for UA and ended up insisting he accept the slightly truculent Kenny Dorham for the date. Sunny Murray is right that Dorham never really fits at all, but that Louis Hayes surprisingly, does