Kenny Davern was born in Huntington, Long Island, and took up the clarinet at an early age, learning on an Albert System clarinet and then switching to a Boehm System. Since the early '50s, Kenny's been in the New York jazz scene playing and recording with Jack Teagarden, Phil Napoleon and Pee Wee Erwin. Then came stints with the Dukes of Dixieland and the World's Greatest Jazz Band. His five-year collaboration with fellow reed virtuoso, Bop Wilber in the Soprano Summit, one of the most important jazz groups of the '70s, broadened his exposure to jazz audiences. Since then, he's worked primarily as a soloist in a variety of trio and quartet formats with pianists like Ralph Sutton and the late Dick Wellstood and Art Hodes, and guitarist Howard Alden. Kenny says he's basically a freelancer. He is revered in Europe and travels widely at home and abroad.
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