Kenny Drew Jr. played the colours of human expression

When I hear Kenny Drew Jr. making the music he made at the piano I hear the colors.

Beautiful and vividly charged colors. I hear them mixed, bouqueted and blended, but with each articulately as evident as their own sound color energy. They dance and tease each other, complimenting and bouncing with zigs and zags. It’s music creativity at play.

Drew Jr. gives every note a rightful place in a phrase. They’re not just building blocks of melody or phrase but are equal sonic elements of the whole. His music foundation background was steeped in Euro-Classical music, a whole other vivid world of beautiful music brimmed with the coloring and sensitive soulful ways of human expression.

Kenny Drew Jr.’s sound, it was all the colors of human expression.