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Kenny Cox

Kenny Cox was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop, hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon. By the end of the late 1960s he had formed his own Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet, which recorded two albums for Blue Note Records before the end of the decade. Cox has appeared as a contributor on various albums, and has also performed live with such musicians as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Eddie Harris, Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Roy Brooks, Charles McPherson, and Curtis Fuller. During the 1980s he formed the Detroit-based Guerilla Jam Band, a group which performed with Regina Carter, James Carter, Tani Tabbal, and Craig Taborn. Cox was responsible for the short-lived Strata Records.


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Album Review

Kenny Cox: Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet

Read "Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Much like the pop music world has its so called “one hit wonders, jazz has also had those musicians who produced one or two excellent records and then faded into obscurity, only to have their records become collector items decades later. Blue Note Records, more than any other mainstream label, has recorded these talented, but ill-recognized musicians and, to the delight of jazz aficionados, they periodically release these long-lost gems into general circulation. One such artist is Kenny Cox and ...

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Memorial Tribute to Kenn Cox in Detroit

Memorial Tribute to Kenn Cox in Detroit

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Obituary

Detroit Jazz Composer and Pianist Kenn Cox, 68, Dies

Detroit Jazz Composer and Pianist Kenn Cox, 68, Dies

Source: JazzStage Productions

Jazz pianist Kenneth Louis Cox II died of lung cancer on Friday. He was 68. Cox died at his Detroit home, said his wife of 42 years, Barbara Cox. He was known by some as Kenny, though he preferred Kenn. The Detroit native was a graduate of Cass Technical High School. He went on to study at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts. Cox was not only a skilled pianist but also played bass, ...

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Kenn Cox Named King, Chavez, Parks Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan - Dearborn

Kenn Cox Named King, Chavez, Parks Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan - Dearborn

Source: JazzStage Productions

Kenn Cox, internationally acclaimed jazz musician, composer and educator, has been awarded the King, Chavez, Parks (KCP) Visiting Professorship for 2008-2009 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Mr. Cox has been named to this post in recognition of his extraordinary brilliant and productive career as a jazz leader, pianist and composer of music in widely diverse genres. His fame began with the highly-esteemed Contemporary Jazz Quintet (CJQ), which he founded and developed during the 60's and 70's. Jazz historian and critic ...

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