Bluesy Burrell

Performer: Kenny Burrell
Artist: Tommy Flanagan; Major Holley; Ray Barretto; George Tucker; Gildo Mahones; Jimmie Smith; Leo Wright
Producer: Nick Phillips (Reissue); Bob Porter (Reissue)
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Kenny Burrell (guitar); Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Leo Wright (alto saxophone); Tommy Flanagan, Gildo Mahones (piano); Major Holley, George Tucker (bass); Eddie Locke, Jimmie Smith (drums); Ray Barretto (congas). Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 14, 1962 and August 15, 1963. Originally released on Moodsville (29). Personnel: Kenny Burrell (guitar); Coleman Hawkins (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Tommy Flanagan (piano); Major Holley (bass instrument); Eddie Locke (drums). Audio Remasterer: Rudy Van Gelder. Originally issued in 1963 on the Moodsville label--a Prestige subsidiary specializing in cozy, mellow jazz--BLUESY BURRELL is something of a major departure for Kenny Burrell. This disc is not his usual blues-tinged hard bop. It's a much more relaxed session, and features Burrell on acoustic guitar as much as his customary electric model. Further, Coleman Hawkins, early icon of jazz saxophone, plays on half the program. As icing on an already sumptuous cake, Tommy Flanagan, that most classy of mainstream pianists, also appears.

Detroit guitarist Kenny Burrell is one of the most influential guitar players in jazz. He started out performing with Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, and even Benny Goodman in the 1950s. Under his own name, he released some important collaborative efforts with John Coltrane and Jimmy Smith. Throughout the '60s, with such albums as the iconic MIDNIGHT BLUE, he helped define the modern concept of jazz guitar, and continued to explore the style for decades to come.

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