Artist: Kai Winding
Genre(s):
Jazz
Instrumental
Discography:
The Sound of Jazz
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
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Year: 1963
Tracks: 12
Jay Jay Johnson
Year:
Tracks: 11
One of the finest trombonists to emerge from the bop era, Kai Winding was incessantly to an extent overshadowed by J.J. Johnson, although they co-led one of the most popular jazz groups of the mid-'50s. Born in Denmark, Winding emigrated to the U.S. with his menage when he was 12. He had short stints with the orchestras of Alvino Rey and Sonny Dunham, and played in a service dance orchestra in the Coast Guard for trey age. Winding's first burst of fame occurred during his year with Stan Kenton's Orchestra (1946-1947), during which his phrasing influenced and was adopted by the other trombonists, leading to a permanent change in the Kenton sound. He as well participated in some early boP roger Huntington Sessions, played with Tadd Dameron (1948-1949), and was on one of the Miles Davis' nonet's illustrious recording roger Huntington Sessions. After playing with the large bands of Charlie Ventura and Benny Goodman, he formed a quintet with J.J. Johnson (1954-1956); the two trombonists (world Health Organization sounded nearly monovular at the time) had occasional reunions subsequently sledding their ramify shipway. Winding light-emitting diode a four-trombone septet off and on through the latter half of the fifties and into the '60s, was music film director for the Playboy clubs in New York, and during 1971-1972 worked with the Giants of Jazz (an all-star group with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, and Thelonious Monk). Although he recorded ofttimes both as a leader and a sideman passim his vocation, most of Winding's roger Sessions are not currently useable on CD.
