Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean – Inta Somethin’: Blue Note Tone Poet (180g Vinyl LP)

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean’s Inta Somethin’. Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters’ Joe Harley.

Kenny Dorham added stellar entries to the catalogs of Blue Note, Riverside, and New Jazz throughout the 1950s as he solidified his reputation as a leading trumpeter and composer on the jazz scene. He began 1961 in the studio for Blue Note recording his excellent album Whistle Stop and later that year cut his first date for Pacific Jazz, Inta Somethin’, a spirited live recording that captured Dorham leading a quintet with alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, pianist Walter Bishop Jr., bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Art Taylor at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. The band is firing on all cylinders throughout this set of four standards bookended by the Dorham originals “Us” and “San Francisco Beat.” A buoyant version of “It Could Happen To You” is performed quartet as a Dorham showcase, while the trumpeter lays out on “Let’s Face The Music And Dance” and “Lover Man” to give the spotlight to McLean.

Musicians:
Kenny Dorham – Trumpet
Jackie McLean – Alto Saxophone
Walter Bishop Jr. – Piano
Leroy Vinnegar – Bass
Art Taylor – Drums

Side A:

1. Us
2. It Could Happen To You
3. Let’s Face The Music And Dance

Side B:

1. No Two People
2. Lover Man
3. San Francisco Beat