Kenny Kirkland(piano) Wynton Marsalis Festival de Jazz de Cascais 1983 - Portugal

Kenny Kirkland (September 28, 1955 – November 12, 1998) was an American pianist/keyboardist. In 1980, while Kirkland was on tour in Japan with Terumasa Hino, he met Wynton Marsalis, which began their long association. On Marsalis’s self-titled debut album, Kirkland shared the piano duties with one of his musical influences, Herbie Hancock, but was the sole pianist on Marsalis’s subsequent releases Think of One, Hothouse Flowers, and Black Codes. After his association with Wynton Marsalis, Kirkland joined Branford Marsalis’s band.[9] He is also on Marsalis’s funk band album Buckshot Lefonque. When Branford Marsalis assumed the high-visibility role of bandleader for NBC TV’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kirkland became the band’s pianist. In 1991, he released his debut as a leader, Kenny Kirkland, on GRP Records. Thunder And Rainbows (1991, Sunnyside Records), by “Jazz from Keystone“, is a trio album with Kirkland, Charles Fambrough, and Jeff “Tain“ Watts.