Prime: Live at the Downtown Room [PA]

Performer: Kenny Burrell
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Richard Wyands (piano); Lisle Atkinson (bass instrument); Lenny McBrowne (drums). Kenny Burrell remains one of the defining guitarists of the post-bop era--his clean, distortion-free, burred style was an influence on Grant Green and Wes Montgomery, among others. Consisting of previously unreleased recordings, PRIME is the Kenny Burrell quartet live in Buffalo, New York, in 1976. It's a set of straight-ahead swingers and dreamy ballads featuring the great underrated pianist Richard Wyands. The recording quality varies throughout, but for the most part it's more than acceptable. As a bonus, the closer, Duke Ellington's beautiful "Single Petal Of A Rose," is Burrell unaccompanied, also recorded live in 2006.

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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