Here’s a game I like to play that’s a variation on the familiar challenge of choosing favorite records to take to a desert island. I call it “One Artist, One Solo.”
Pick a jazz musician. If you could listen to just one solo by that player for the rest of your life, which would it be and why? Consider improvisations that best embody the sound, style, personality, and individualism of the player. Now think about how those solos make you feel. The one that most fires your emotions should get the nod.
That brings me to Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), a beautifully expressive trumpeter whom
