Kiane Zawadi
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Bernard Atwell McKinney, later Kiane Zawadi (b. November 26, 1932) is an American jazz trombonist and euphonium player.
McKinney was born into a family of nine children, several of which also became musicians. He started out with Barry Harris and Sonny Stitt in 1951, and played with Alvin Jackson's band early in the decade. Toward the middle of the 1950s he worked with Art Blakey, Yusef Lateef, and Donald Byrd, and he moved with Lateef to New York City in 1959. In the 1960s he played with Illinois Jacquet, Slide Hampton, Pepper Adams, Sun Ra, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, and Curtis Fuller. Later that decade he adopted the name Kiane Zawadi. In the 1970s he performed with Archie Shepp, Carlos Garnett, Harold Vick, Frank Foster, Charles Tolliver, Dollar Brand, and McCoy Tyner. In 1978, he played in the pit orchestra for Dancin', a Broadway show. He appeared at a Charlie Parker tribute at Town Hall in New York City in 1985.
Other musicians Zawadi worked with include Mongo Santamaria, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, and Aretha Franklin.
