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Kenny BurrellKenny Burrell has been a very consistent guitarist throughout
his career. Cool-toned and playing in an unchanging style based in bop, Burrell
has always been the epitome of good taste and solid swing. Duke Ellington's favorite
guitarist (though he never actually recorded with him), Burrell started playing
guitar when he was 12, and he debuted on records with Dizzy Gillespie in 1951.
Part of the fertile Detroit jazz scene of the early '50s, Burrell moved to New
York in 1956. Highly in demand from the start, Burrell appeared on a countless
number of records as a leader and as a sideman. Among his more notable associations
were dates with Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Gil Evans,
Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine, and Jimmy Smith. Starting in
the early '70s, Burrell began leading seminars and teaching, often focusing on
Duke Ellington's music. He toured with the Phillip Morris Superband during 1985-1986,
and led three-guitar quintets, but generally Kenny Burrell plays at the head of
a trio/quartet.
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Introducing
Kenny Burrell: The First Blue Note Sessions [ORIGINAL REC. REMASTERED]
The
Detroit-born Kenny Burrell reigns as the dean of jazz guitarists. He's combined
Charlie Christian's prebop fluency, Django Reinhardt's Old World touches, and
the rhythmic drive of Nat King Cole's guitarist, Oscar Moore. This two-CD set
contains Burrell's earliest Blue Note sessions from 1956. The first seven tracks,
with drummer Kenny Clarke, bassist Paul Chambers, pianist Tommy Flanagan, and
percussionist Candido Camero were released as Introducing Kenny Burrell.
It's a pleasing and swinging potpourri of Latin-tinged numbers and ballads such
as "Weaver of Dreams," "This Time the Dream's on Me," and
"Takeela" (read: Tequila). Burrell's nifty "Fugue 'n the Blues"
is a Bach-meets-bop excursion worthy of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Tracks 8 and
9 are from Kenny Burrell Volume Two, and feature the guitarist's lightning-licked
take on "Get Happy" and a succulent solo rendition of George Gershwin's
"But Not for Me."
Those sessions continue on Disc 2 with Shadow
Wilson and Oscar Pettiford taking over the drum and the bass with Frank Foster
on tenor saxophone, and they remake classics such as Count Basie's "Moten
Swing." Another date, Swingin', with Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins,
and Louis Hayes, finds Burrell and company in superb form on Lester Young's "D.B.
Blues" and Silver's "Nica's Dream." On all of those sides, Burrell's
blues-based guitar sounds as modern today as it did in the '50s. --Eugene Holley
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