Kenny Barron
- Type: Musician
- Country: United States
- Born: 9 June 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Active: 1961 - present
Biography
Kenny Barron is a Philadelphia-born jazz pianist, active since the early 1960s. Hired by *Dizzy Gillespie* in 1962, he became a first-call sideman for *Freddie Hubbard*, *Yusef Lateef*, *Ron Carter* and *Stan Getz*, and co-founded the quartet Sphere. As a leader he has recorded dozens of albums of elegant post-bop, among them 'Scratch' and 'Book of Intuition', while teaching for decades at Rutgers University and later Juilliard.
Genres
Kenny Barron Discography
- Peruvian Blue (1974) - Album - rated 3.86/5
- Scratch (1985) - Album - rated 3.59/5
- Night and the City (1998) - Album
- Live at Bradley's (2001) - Album - rated 3.94/5