From Memphis to Mobile is one of a pair of albums by freelance tenor saxophonist, songwriter, producer, and University of Central Florida jazz professor Jeff Rupert, featuring Kenny Drew, Jr. on the piano.
Nancy Drew | Kenny Rogers | Kenny Chesney | Kenny Wheeler | Drew Carey | Drew Barrymore | The Drew Carey Show | Kenny Loggins | Kenny G | Kenny Barron | Kenny Garrett | Kenny Dalglish | Drew University | Kenny Everett | Kenny Burrell | Enda Kenny | Drew | Anthony Kenny | Tom Kenny | Kenny Scharf | Drew Forsythe | Drew Brees | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Kenny Rankin | John Drew | Drew Jarvis | Drew Bledsoe | Drew Henson | Yvonne Kenny | Pat Kenny |
Members included expatriate American such as Kenny Drew and Ed Thigpen as well as prominent Danish jazz musicians such as Jesper Thilo and Bent Jaedig.
Rud joined the fri jazz band Svein Finnerud Trio (1967–74), was educated at the Norges Musikkhøgskole (1968), was percussionist within Pompel og Pilt (1969), was part of Min bul (1970) in trio with Terje Rypdal and Bjørnar Andresen, and contributed on the Karin Krog album Some other spring (1970), where also Dexter Gordon and Kenny Drew contributed.
Drew's first recording, in 1950, was with Howard McGhee, and over the next two years he worked in bands led by Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, among others.
Kenny Drew — piano on "Trane's Blues," "Locomotion," "Blue Train"