Kiane Zawadi (Bernard McKinney)
trombone, euphonium
Kiane Zawadi, born Bernard McKinney into Detroit’s musical McKinney family, played trombone and euphonium; he was one of the young musicians at Barry’s house and a bandmate in Detroit, and later had the New York loft where Barry went to practise.
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What Barry says
Barry names Keani, as the captions spell him, among the musicians who came to his house with Donald Byrd, Roland Hanna and Yusef Lateef, and explains that he is one of the McKinney family, Harold and the rest. It was a real community, Barry says.
The last train to Monk: an interview8:26
In his late teens, around his year at college, Barry started hanging out on Detroit’s west side, where he met four McKinneys, Harold, Ray, Clarence and Bernard, the last of whom became Kiane Zawadi.
Barry recalls jamming all day with Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Yusef Lateef and Kiane Zawadi.
Barry’s rules for practising improvisation began when he worked a steady gig with Yusef Lateef and Bernard McKinney. The band practised every week, Barry felt they needed something to practise, and he made up rules that he says have lasted ever since and are still the best.
Barry played with Yusef and with Kiane Zawadi in Detroit, and in 1955 recorded there with Yusef Lateef, Bernard McKinney and Frank Gant, a session he agrees was for the Transition label.
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When Barry settled in New York, sharing an unheated loft on Broad Street that had no piano, he went to practise at Kiane Zawadi’s loft on East Broadway, which had one.
In his own words
See they all came to my house, Donald Byrd, Roland, Yusuf, Keani. Keani is a member of the McKinney family
I met some musicians on the west side, Harold McKinney, Ray McKinney, Clarence McKinney, Bernard McKinney, who was Kiane Zawadi
That started when I was working with Yusef and Bernard McKennie. We had – we practiced every week for the gig
I used to go to Kiane Zawadi’s loft on East Broadway where they had a piano
Plus we jammed all day, man. We had a ball. Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Yusef, Kiane Zawadi, all these musicians.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
The last train to Monk: an interview
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Keani came to Barry’s house; he is a member of the McKinney family.
In the interviews and notes
Barry met several McKinneys on Detroit’s west side in his late teens, among them Bernard McKinney, who became Kiane Zawadi.
Barry traces his rules for practising improvisation to a steady gig with Yusef Lateef and Bernard McKinney: they practised weekly, he felt they needed material, and the rules he made up then are, he says, still the best.
Barry recalls jamming all day, and having a ball, with Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Yusef Lateef and Kiane Zawadi.
Recalling who played with him in Detroit, Barry says he played with Yusef and with Kiane Zawadi, then names a Luther McKinney and mentions his brother Harold.
From his discography Barry reads out a 1955 Detroit recording with Yusef Lateef, Bernard McKinney and Frank Gant, which he agrees was for Transition.
With no piano in his first New York loft, Barry practised at Kiane Zawadi’s loft on East Broadway and at a studio on 53rd Street.
De Lima lists Kiane Zawadi with Donald Byrd, Sonny Red and Yusef Lateef among the peers Barry said he jammed with all day.
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