Kenny Davern. Practicing on his clarinet in a recording studio, New York, 1975

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Kenny Davern practicing on his clarinet in a recording studio, New York, 1975.

Kenny Davern (by name John Kenneth Davern) was an American jazz clarinetist. After hearing Pee Wee Russell the first time, he was convinced that he wanted to be a jazz musician, too; and at the age of 16 he joined the musician's union, first as a baritone saxophone player. In 1954 he joined Jack Teagarden's Band, and after only a few days with the band he made his first jazz recordings. Later on, he worked with bands led by Phil Napoleon and Pee Wee Erwin before joining the Dukes of Dixieland in 1962. The late 1960s found him freelancing with, among others, Red Allen, Ralph Sutton, Yank Lawson and his lifelong friend Dick Wellstood.


b. January 7, 1935 in Huntington New York.
d. December 12, 2006 in Sandia Park New Mexico.

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