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Although playing mainly in traditional jazz and swing settings, his musical interests encompass a much broader range of styles. In 1978 he collaborated with avantgarde players Steve Lacy, Steve Swallow and Paul Motian on a free jazz -inspired album appropriately entitled Unexpected.
Dec 14, 2006 · Kenny Davern, a radically traditional jazz clarinetist and soprano saxophonist whose liquid tones linked him to the classical sound of New Orleans but who could also play free jazz,...
Dec 18, 2006 · Kenny Davern, a clarinetist and soprano saxophonist who became an acclaimed torchbearer of traditional jazz and swing, died Tuesday at his home in Sandia Park, N.M., after a heart attack....
Nov 29, 2022 · Jazz musician Kenny Davern's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.
Although Kenny Davern became one of the most effective jazz clarinettists of the last 50 years, he always regarded a trumpeter, Louis Armstrong, as the wellspring of his inspiration. Unusually for a clarinet player he had a forceful attack, almost as though he was playing the trumpet.
Dec 14, 2006 · Internationally renowned jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern, the recipient of an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2000, died Tuesday, Dec. 12.
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Dec 14, 2006 · Kenny Davern, who died Tuesday at 71, was a jazz player regarded as one of the great clarinet players of his generation. In a career that stretched more than 50 years, Davern was widely hailed for the beauty of his tone, for his facility on his instruments, and for his ability to compose solos spontaneously that were light and airy but at the ...
