Ken Kersey

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member of:	Charlie Shavers’ Sextet (piano)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/312922 [info]
other databases:	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93022743 [info] http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w8098z [info] https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13925288j [info] https://d-nb.info/gnd/134425316 [info] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no93022743 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000658453 [info]
VIAF ID:	64193886 [info]
Wikidata:	Q1738971 [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	instruments
1939-02-21	Honeysuckle Rose (live, 1939-02-21: Cafe Society, New York City, NY, USA)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Frankie Newton and His Café Society Orchestra	5:19
1939-03-21	Everything Happens for the Best	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday	2:51
1939-03-21	Everything Happens for the Best		piano	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	2:51
1939-03-21	Long Gone Blues		piano	Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	3:04
1939-03-21	Long Gone Blues	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday	3:07
1939-03-21	Long Gone Blues		piano	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	3:06
1939-03-21	Long Gone Blues	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	3:07
1939-03-21	Under a Blue Jungle Moon	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday	2:58
1939-03-21	Under a Blue Jungle Moon		piano	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	2:57
1939-03-21	Why Did I Always Depend on You?		piano	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	2:33
1939-03-21	Why Did I Always Depend on You?	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday	2:33
1939-03-21	You're Too Lovely to Last		piano	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	2:50
1939-03-21	You're Too Lovely to Last	Kenny Kersey	piano	Billie Holiday	2:50
1939-04-12	Daybreak Blues (1939-04-07, mx. GM-512-x-6: See annotation)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Frank Newton Quintet	2:41
1939-04-12	Frankie’s Jump (1939-04-12, mx. 24367-A)		piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	2:49
1939-04-12	Jam Fever (1939-04-12, mx. 24368-A)		piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	3:09
1939-04-12	Jitters (1939-04-12, mx. 24366-A)		piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	3:02
1939-04-12	Mighty Blues (1939-04-07, mx. GM-516-2)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Port of Harlem Jazz Men	4:35
1939-04-12	Port of Harlem Blues (1939-04-07, mx. GM-515-A-5)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Port of Harlem Jazz Men	4:34
1939-04-12	Rocking the Blues (1939-04-07, mx. GM-517-1)		tenor saxophone	Port of Harlem Jazz Men	4:25
1939-04-12	Tab’s Blues (1939-04-12, mx. 24365-A)		piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	2:56
1939-08-15	Parallel Fifths (1939-08-15, mx. 25204-1)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	3:17
1939-08-15	Vamp (1939-08-15, mx. 25203-1)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Frankie Newton and His Cafe Society Orchestra	2:53
1939-12	Does Your Heart Beat for Me?		piano	Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra	2:44
1939-12	High Society		piano	Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra	3:04
1939-12	Muskrat Ramble		piano	Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra	2:46
1939-12	Who Told You I Cared?		piano	Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra	3:24
1940-12-19	Breakfast Feud		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet	3:06
1940-12-19	Breakfast Feud		piano	Benny Goodman and his Sextet	3:09
1940-12-19	Gilly		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet	2:39
1940-12-19	Gilly		piano	Benny Goodman	?:??
1940-12-19	Gilly		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet	2:38
1940-12-19	Gilly		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet	1:34
1940-12-19	Gilly		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet	2:38
1940-12-19	Gilly (Gone With What Draft)		piano	Benny Goodman and his Sextet	2:36
1940-12-19	I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1940-12-19, mx CO 29260-1)		piano	Benny Goodman and his Sextet	3:22
1941-01-15	Breakfast Feud (composite)		piano	The Benny Goodman Sextet feat. Charlie Christian	2:18
1941-04-17	K.K. Boogie	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:09
1941-04-17	K.K. Boogie (breakdown)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	K.K. Boogie (take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	K.K. Boogie (take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Ol' Man River	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:08
1941-04-17	Old Man River (breakdown + take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Old Man River (two breakdown + take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy - Part I (early breakdown + take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy - Part I (take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy - Part II (breakdown + take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy - Part II (take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy, Part 1	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:17
1941-04-17	Sometimes I'm Happy, Part 2	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:12
1941-05-06	Lips Flips		piano	Charlie Christian	4:56
1941-05-07	Kerouac		piano	Charlie Christian	7:35
1941-05-07	Stardust		piano	Charlie Christian	3:25
1941-05-07	Stardust		piano	Charlie Christian	6:16
1941-05-12	Swing to Bop (aka: Stompin’ at the Savoy)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Jamming At Minton's	9:00
1941-05-12	Topsy (Charlie's Choice) (Swing to Bop Pt. 2)		piano	Charlie Christian	3:36
1941-05	Kerouac	Kenny Kersey	piano	Dizzy Gillespie	7:39
1941-05	Kerouac (first excerpt)		piano	The Monroe's Jam Sessions	2:01
1941-05	Kerouac (second excerpt)		piano	The Monroe's Jam Sessions	2:42
1941-05	Star Dust I (excerpt)		piano	The Monroe's Jam Sessions	1:44
1941-05	Star Dust II (excerpt)		piano	The Monroe's Jam Sessions	4:38
1941-05	Stardust	Kenny Kersey	piano	Dizzy Gillespie	3:26
1941-05	Stompin' at the Savoy	Kenny Kersey	piano	Jamming At Minton's	8:17
1941-07-22	A Sheridan 'Square'	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:22
1941-07-22	A Sheridan Square (breakdown + take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	A Sheridan Square (breakdown)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	A Sheridan Square (breakdown)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	Indiana	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:15
1941-07-22	Indiana (take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	Indiana (take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	Jack the Bellboy	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:09
1941-07-22	Jack the Bellboy (breakdown + take 2)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	Jack the Bellboy (take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1941-07-22	Siesta at the Fiesta	Kenny Kersey	piano	Henry “Red” Allen and His Orchestra	3:14
1941-07-22	Siesta at the Fiesta (breakdown +take 1)		piano	Henry Allen And His Cafe Society Sextet	?:??
1942-04-01	Fly Right (Epistrophy)		piano	Cootie Williams and His Orchestra	2:34
1942-04-01	Marcheta		piano	Cootie Williams and His Orchestra	3:06
1942-04-01	Sleepy Valley		piano	Cootie Williams and His Orchestra	2:57
1942-04-01	When My Baby Left Me		piano	Cootie Williams and His Orchestra	2:42
1942-07-14	McGhee Special (mx. 71053-A)	Kenny Kersey	piano	Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy	2:49
1946-04-22	I Got Rhythm		tenor saxophone	Charlie Parker	12:58
1946-04-22	I Got Rhythm		piano	Charlie Parker & Lester Young	12:58
1946-04-22	I Got Rhythm		piano	Charlie Parker	12:57
1946-04-22	Jatp Blues		piano	Buck Clayton, Charlie Parker, Willie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Kenny Kersey, Irving Ashby, Bill Hadnott & Buddy Rich	11:00
1946-04-22	JATP Blues		tenor saxophone	Charlie Parker	11:07
1946-04-22	JATP Blues		piano	Charlie Parker & Lester Young	10:57
1946-05-27	Fine and Mellow (live, 1946-05-27: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	3:51
1946-05-27	He’s Funny That Way (live, 1946-05-27: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	3:22
1946-05-27	I Cried for You (live, 1946-05-27: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	2:18
1946-05-27	Philharmonic Blues		piano	Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Lester Young, Kenny Kersey, Curley Russell & J.C. Heard	11:09
1946-05-27	Slow Drag		piano	Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Kenny Kersey, Curley Russell & J.C. Heard	9:24
1946-05-27	Slow Drag		piano	Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars	9:26
1946-06-03	All of Me (live, 1946-06-03: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	1:56
1946-06-03	Billie’s Blues (live, 1946-06-03: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	3:39
1946-06-03	Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You? (live, 1946-06-03: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	2:20
1946-06-03	The Man I Love (live, 1946-06-03: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	3:04
1946-10-07	He’s Funny That Way (live, 1946-10-07: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	2:51
1946-10-07	Travelin’ Light (live, 1946-10-07: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA)		piano	Billie Holiday	3:28
1947-03-05	Bell Boy Blues		piano	Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, Willie Smith, Flip Phillips, Kenny Kersey, Benny Fonville & Buddy Rich	6:15
1947-03-05	Boogie Woogie Cocktail		piano	Kenny Kersey	3:06
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