Bernard McKinney

Bernard "Bernie" Atwell McKinney , later called Kiane Zawadi (born November 26, 1932 in Detroit ) is an American jazz trombonist and euphonium player of hard bop .

Live and act

He was born into a musical family as one of ten children - some of his siblings are musicians too (his brother Harold is a well-known pianist in Detroit; his brother Ray is a bassist). In his hometown of Detroit he worked with Barry Harris and Sonny Stitt in 1951 and with Art Blakey in 1954. In the following year he recorded with Donald Byrd , also from Detroit, and played with bassist Alvin Jackson in 1955/56 (the brother of Milt Jackson , with whom he played in Detroit on weekends at the Bluebird Inn), with Pepper Adams in 1957 and Yusef Lateef in 1958. McKinney went to New York with Lateef in 1959 and worked with Illinois Jacquet in 1959, the Octet of Slide Hampton 1959-61, Benny Golsons Jazztet 1960 and the Sun Ra Arkestra 1961. In 1962 he played with Freddie Hubbard his blue-note record Ready For Freddie .

After working with Hubbard, he changed his name to "Kiane Zawadi" in 1965. Under his new name he also played with Hubbard's albums Blue Spirits , 1966 and High Blues Pressure , 1968. McKinney / Zawadi continued his musical career in Broadway orchestras (e.g. in the Revue Dancin ' in 1978 ) and in various big bands , e.g. with Frank Foster in 1978, Sun Ra , Clifford Jordan in the early 1990s, Bill Hardman ( Brass Co. , 1971 ), Joe Henderson 1992. In the 1970s he also recorded with free jazz musicians such as Archie Shepp ( Attica Blues , 1972) and McCoy Tyner , as well as with Abdullah Ibrahim . He recorded with members of his family in the 1990s under the band name McKinfolk .

Bernard McKinney's style is similar to Jay Jay Johnson's .

Selection discography

• Donald Byrd: First Flight ( Delmark Records , 1955)
• Pepper Adams: The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams ( Savoy Records , 1957)
• Slide Hampton: Sister Salvation ( Atlantic Records , 1960)
• Freddie Hubbard: Ready For Freddie ( Blue Note Records , 1962), Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1966), High Blues Pressure (Atlantic, 1968)
• Yusef Lateef: The Last Savoy Sessions , 1957-59 (Savoy, 2000)
• Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (Savoy, 1961); Re-released in 1984 as We Are In The Future

literature

• Bob Blumenthal : liner notes (2003) to Freddie Hubbard: Ready For Freddie (Blue Note, 1962)
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Alan Stein: liner notes for Pepper Adams: The Cool Sound Of Pepper Adams (Savoy, 1957)
• Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 2001

Web links

• Biography at Allmusic
• Histoire et discographie de Bernard McKinney, alias Kiane Zawadi at Bebop, hard bop and beyond ... recherches sur l'histoire du jazz