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Kai with The Giants of Jazz - 1971 World Tour


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Al McKibbon and Sonny Stitt improvise a few bars...



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Kai Winding, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey on the tour. 


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Dizzy Gillespie rehearses while Thelonious Monk has a reflective moment.


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Kai on the airplane.  What city is next on the tour, Kai?


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Playing around or serious rehearsal?  You decide!


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These guys obviously love what they did.  And you could hear it in their music.



Some of Kai's later appearances and gigs:




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In Ezshwan's own words:  "Kai played in the Sammy Davis, Jr. band the week that it was being taped from Puerta Vallarta in 1976.
We had a great time there and participated in Sammy's 50th birthday. He was a warm, generous man. Richard Pryor is in the foreground."






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Above:  Kai was starring in a Paris Jazz club when this photo was taken by Ezshwan. 
The two men he is talking to welcomed Kai and Ezshwan in Toyko at Kai's last appearance with J.J. Johnson.







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Above, left to right:  Kai Winding, drummer Don Lamond and pianist Bubba Kolb having a chat in a Village Townhouse at Lake Buena Vista, FL (Walt Disney World) during one of Kai's two-week engagements there;
Kai onstage at the Village Jazz Lounge, Lake Buena Vista, FL (1981).

 

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