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Kenny Burrell
Kenny 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.
Visit
the official Kenny Burrell website here
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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 Jr. Order
here from Amazon.com
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