Kenny Clarke Returns!

 

Last week's post featuring Kenny Clarke got a lot of attention and I received some great messages and comments on social media from many of you out there. Thanks for reaching out and I decided to follow up with some more Klook today.

Pittsburgh's Thomas Wendt pointed out that the track I posted last week was from a Kenny Clarke-Ernie Wilkins Septet album recorded for Savoy in 1955:

Ireland's Conor Guilfoyle also took the time to scan the liner notes from this album:

And thanks to Toronto's Nick Fraser who shared this track of Billie's Bounce recorded by Eddie Bert featuring a wonderfully melodic drum solo from Kenny Clarke, no doubt informed by the melody in question:

 

And while we're on the subject of Kenny Clarke, check out this episode from the infamous History of Jazz Drumming radio series featuring Mel Lewis and Loren Schoenberg, originally broadcast in 1989: