{"title":"Kenny Burrell","description":"\u003cp\u003eKenny Burrell grew up in Detroit in a musical family, started guitar at twelve under the influence of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, and by seventeen was playing professional gigs around the city alongside future giants Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, and Elvin Jones. He made his recording debut in 1951 in a Dizzy Gillespie sextet session that also featured John Coltrane and Milt Jackson, graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in music composition in 1955, and moved to New York the following year after a touring stint with Oscar Peterson's trio. Blue Note signed him immediately, and the series of albums he recorded for the label through the late 1950s established a guitar voice that sat precisely where bebop and the blues intersect: warm-toned, unhurried, harmonically sophisticated, and always rooted in feeling. \"Midnight Blue\" (Blue Note, 1963), recorded with Stanley Turrentine on tenor and Ray Barretto on congas, is the record most collectors reach for first, and it remains one of the label's best-loved soul jazz albums. \"Guitar Forms\" (Verve, 1964), arranged for him by Gil Evans, is the other essential stop, demonstrating a range that extended well beyond the organ trio and small group settings he is most associated with. His Prestige and CTI work, including the 1958 meeting with John Coltrane released on New Jazz, fills out a catalogue that rewards collector attention across multiple labels and eras.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kenny-burrell-midnight-blue-2021-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series-vinyl-lp","title":"Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKenny Burrell - \u003cem\u003eMidnight Blue\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series 180g (3579908, Kevin Gray\/Optimal)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKenny Burrell made his Blue Note debut in 1956 and recorded steadily for the label across the next seven years. Everything led here. The session on January 7, 1963 used a small group with no piano, Burrell's guitar carrying the harmonic weight against Turrentine's tenor, Holley's bass and Barretto's congas. Bill English's drumming sits back and underneath, closer to a time-keeper than a featured voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chitlins Con Carne\" opens the album. It is a blues in F, the melody built on a rhythm that Barretto's congas establish in the first bar and hold throughout. Burrell plays the head simply, Turrentine adds a smoky tenor solo, and the piece has become so ubiquitous since that it is easy to forget how direct the original recording is. \"Mule,\" co-written with Holley, follows with a slower feel, the bass more prominent. \"Soul Lament\" is Burrell alone. No rhythm section, no tenor. Two minutes and forty seconds of solo guitar, fingerpicked, the most emotionally concentrated piece on the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Midnight Blue\" and \"Wavy Gravy\" are both Burrell originals that play differently from the opener's groove. \"Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You\" is the one standard, the Don Redman and Andy Razaf piece from 1929, Turrentine taking the solo feature. \"Saturday Night Blues\" closes the album at just over six minutes, Burrell and Turrentine trading lines over the rhythm section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReid Miles's cover is among the most recognisable in the Blue Note catalogue. This is the 2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series 180g pressing, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed at Optimal Media GmbH.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Note","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43602750046267,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/602435799087.jpg?v=1781137160"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/kenny-burrell.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}