Kenny Davern Big Three

by Kenny Davern

Overview

Clarinetist Kenny Davern is always consistent, playing swing and trad standards with creativity and in his own sound within the older pre-bop styles. This swinging trio date with a pair of excellent British jazzmen (pianist Martin Litton and drummer John Petters) holds its own with Davern's better-known sessions. Litton is a fine two-handed pianist who makes the absence of a string bass irrelevant, while Petters is tasteful in support of the lead voices. Davern shows off his remarkable ease with high notes on "Black and Blue" and is in fine form on such numbers as "You're Lucky to Me," "Willie the Weeper," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and "Dinah." This CD is easily recommended to fans of the idiom and swinging clarinet. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/10/1994
Label:	Jazzology
UPC:	0762247619727
Rank:	220700

Tracks

1. You're Lucky to Me
2. Drop Me off in Harlem
3. Black and Blue
4. Willie the Weeper
5. Bye Bye Blues
6. Sometimes I'm Happy
7. New Orleans
8. Lullaby of the Leaves
9. Black Beauty
10. Dinah

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kenny Davern   Primary Artist,Clarinet
John Petters   Guest Artist,Drums
Martin Litton   Guest Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Fats Waller   Composer
Eubie Blake   Composer
Joe Young   Composer
Walter Melrose   Composer
Nick A. Kenny   Composer
David Bennett   Composer
Harry Brooks   Composer
Harry Akst   Composer
Bert Lown   Composer
Vincent Youmans   Composer
Bernice Petkere   Composer
Frederick Hamm   Composer
Gus P. Statiras   Production Coordination
Marty Bloom   Composer
George H. Buck, Jr.   Liner Notes
Grant Rymal   Composer
Dave Bennett   Engineer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Chauncey Gray   Composer