''This Is the Moment!'' (subtitled ''Kenny Dorham Sings and Plays'') is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label.Kenny Dorham discography
accessed October 7, 2010 Dorham sings on the album, for the first and only time in his discography. The album marks the recording debut of pianist Cedar Walton.

Reception

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review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated that "this recording must have surprised most jazz listeners at the time, for trumpeter Kenny Dorham sings on all ten selections... Dorham had an OK voice, musical if not memorable, but the arrangements for these selections are inventive and pleasing."Yanow, S.

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accessed October 7, 2010

Track listing

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) - 4:16 # " I Understand" ( Kim Gannon, Mabel Wayne) - 4:12 # " From This Moment On" ( Cole Porter) - 4:47 # " This Is the Moment" (

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) - 2:41 # "Make Me a Present of You" (Joe Greene) - 3:07 :*Recorded by Jack Higgins at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on July 7, 1958 (tracks 1, 3-4, 6-8 & 10) and May 27 (tracks 2, 5 & 9), 1957

Personnel

* Kenny Dorham -

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* Cedar Walton -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Sam Jones - bass * G.T. Hogan (tracks 2, 5 & 9), Charlie Persip (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6-8 & 10) - drums

References

Riverside Records albums Kenny Dorham albums 1958 albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub