Kenny Burrell "Midnight Blue"

[HarleyDutch]

thank you for sharing

[apoculamus]

Yet you won't see Kenny in a Rolling Stone Best Guitarists list, nor Farlow, Kessel, Montgomery, Lowe, Smith - I could go on - yet these are simply the best there ever were (don't overlook Segovia, Bream) but the responders to RS polls are no-nothings without a clue about guitar players. Recently someone who can't find his own ass so he had to stick his head up someone else's posted that Ted Nugent is a better guitarist than Joe Pass!?!? KB, you keep on going; you're just one true, blue genius.

[MsRockett88]

One of the best guitarist. Saw him at Yoshi's Oakland celebrating how 86th BD a few months back. Still has those licks. A very gracious gentleman.

[TuberosityTime]

Amazing musician - an even more amazing teacher. Great man.

[jazzystrong]

very nice!

[MrAccessallareas]

What is deserve ? I will try to help them up if it doesn't pull me down to much. I sometimes dont know why but I alwise know what i like. I like this, Thanks for posting

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool : )

[anneallman1]

Great chart. I had the pleasure of hearing and meeting Mr. Burrell in Chicago twenty years ago. He'll never remember me, but I'll never forget him. I put down my drumsticks and picked up an archtop guitar. Never looked back, either. Just in from my gig tonight - last tune was Warm Valley, the Ellington standard so beautifully arranged by KB. Nobody will ever mistake me for him, but thanks for the inspiration, Mr. B. I couldn't have done it without you...

[grb321]

Had the pleasure of seeing Kenny play in Hollywood at the

Catalina Club on July 23rd. A crowd of maybe 100 -- and

Stevie Wonder shows up for a guest appearance near the

end of the set! So Kenny's got a lot of fans.

[stringbender57]

Kenny is Bad Ass PERIOD! A true player from the soul. If you can't dig it you just have no soul. Love this guitarist!

[Pickinbuddy]

LOVE his playing...

[Xelanderthomas]

Saw him twice, met him once; super nice humble man.

[jg3630]

One of the all time greats. " Midnight Blue " was the first album of his that I bought as a kid. I still have it today. Great guitar.

[mns335]

brilliant

[Easygoingfellow]

The Tone!

[pineapplepeanuts]

Caught this on the jazz station on TV. Holy crap. Big fan of 50's modal jazz n stuff, this is right up my alley. I heard Burrell worked with Coltrane, now I gotta find the stuff hehe...well this is enough to wanna pick up a guitar I'd say.

[CollectiveExperience]

He's my teacher right now for one of my Jazz classes.

[vdeferens]

@CollectiveExperience That's incredible!

[evoHBmore]

Mr. Kenny is a master Jazz-Blues guitar player. I like the fact the even though he can play complex stuff he sticks to a lot of blues based tunes. Blues feels good and for those who like to groove there is nothing better in jazz music.

[pryview22]

Went to see Kenny live in concert three seats down was a guy in a wide brim hat and leather coat jamming off the sounds it was a happening until i got home and saw the same guy on tv it was Willie Nelson and the concert was awsome.

[FREDTWINS]

Wow... I am jealous

[tholley8215]

I just found a copy of Kenny's reissued CTI recording, "God Bless The Child" (the one with the strange Pete Turner photo on the cover). My uncle Major Holley played on Midnight Blue, and it's a shame Blue Note didn't produce or release anything else with them together. "God Bless The Child" has a cello quintet on most of the arranged tunes (Don Sebesky, of course!!), but it is exquisite music!! Thank you for posting this clip!!

[plgplgplg]

I'm punching in a hockey pool, listening to this KB mix and my toes be tappin"!!!!!

[alexdroogie100]

If you listen to his lines, they would outright make perfect sense in rock music. Hell, he's clearly playing on a tube amp and it's not THAT quiet, as there is a nice rich very low gain overdrive going on. I love this, but as a rock guy I have an impulse to want to shout "Turn up just a bit man! that tone is ready to scream buddy!"

[skipheaton]

@alexdroogie100 KB uses a Fender Twin, has for years. He has several of them ( apparently ) stashed at various places throughout the US.

[Guitfiddlejase]

Kenny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[psychelectronic]

this great guitarist of all time makes love to float over all lives



[bobburford]

That would be Dr. Kenny Burrell, a very classy gentleman. Love it!

[readmore2008]

When I hear greatness like this I'm just grateful for ears that work and I'm lucky enough to be alive at a time when I can hear him. You run out of adjectives for this guy and BTW - who cares if he's Black, White or a Korean. Really, who gives a flying phuck???

[1968sliceoflife]

Love it ! He played with some of the biggest names in jazz and is himself a legend in my eyes and ears... I especially love his early work with J. Coltrane. Thanks.

[wikkiville]

copacetic man - this was 70 years ahead of triphop - swinging

[pegraves]

Man! This guy was disturbed!

[RaymondFRevalee]

sounds like crap, decent groove but horrid soloing and feel... crappy twangy tone.

[ckbennetttn]

@RaymondFRevalee you honestly cannot believe what you wrote. He is absolutely one of the best ever-and this is one of his best tunes.

[rammunyte]

One of the best! Looove it!

[enorbet2]

Love this! I am betting Van Morrison does too since it seems he was channeling it when he wrote "Moondance". and....

For all you race-ists - Get hip to the fact that there is only One - The Human Race, since Neanderthals died out 10,000 years ago, despite the apparent continued existence of what seems like direct descendants.

[taildragger53]

@enorbet2 You are 200% correct. The Human Race is what it's about and Kenny Burrell , being a humanitarian, would say the exact same words. You are spot on about Van's 'Moondance' too...reminds me of when Steely Dan took the intro to his "Song For My Father" and used it for "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". Best wishes to you, Kenny &' rovingeye2' for this video. 

[guildmanhattan]

kenny's got the swing, the style, the groove. he's a straight up jazz cat.

[SleepWhenIamDead]

...this is really good...why is everyone so obsessed with race?...Beyonce and Halle would love to have his skin...they lighten theirs with photoshop and make-up....

[stpgroov]

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[bignoze123]

american jazz transcends racism ....take a chill pill and groove ma man

[whateverchic]

love it. i love all kinds of music what ever gets to my heart. god bless and thanks

[unchainedluisxxx]

The four people that disliked this have horrible taste in music and no musical talent

[MrJihadjared]

@unchainedluisxxx

they are allowed to like whatever they want, no rules on music tastes thanks.

[chrispitts420]

Hes the boss  Y isnt he ever considered one of the greatest guitarist? Y not Joe Pass. Those cats were on another level.....The ones who get recognition play rock...........jeeeze

[TheGypsy90]

Is this an A B A A form with the solo form matching the melody or does it change somewhere along the way? I'm using this song for an audition to Cornish College and would be grateful for any info. In the meantime I'll search around for a chord sheet...

Thanks alot!

[circle11010]

@TheGypsy90 It is a 16 bar AB form -- 8 bars each section. The 1st is in fm and the 2nd is a descending chord sequence that ends on C7. There is an intro on the vamp of the A section and when Kenny switches from chords to the familiar bluesy melody, that's when the form starts. They play the head 2x. Then they follow the form for solos. Good luck!

[Bluesfactorypl]

This track for me has more energy than metal band ...

[metemi]

Was Burrel black or white?

[bluntobjct]

@metemi I wonder too, I think a mix but mostly white, like 4th generation black grandfather or something.

[TheMrElambia]

@bluntobjct it does,nt has to be from 4th generation to be like Burrel,.if u are white and have children with a black lady,your kids will look like burrell,so it is allredy the first generation,but if your child has another child with a white lady then this will look whiter and probably will b even called as a White but is not..coz his granma is black..that is called CLEANIG OF THE RACE.

[bluntobjct]

@TheMrElambia you make me sick. why did i even brought it up.

[TheCanadianSocialist]

@TheMrElambia wow someone should probably punch you in the mouth before you say anything else stupid

[TheMrElambia]

@TheCanadianSocialist you shake my penis and suck my balls

[idlew1llkill]

@metemi he's the black guy in the picture duh. pfft.

[invisaman75]

@metemi He is a man and a great musician!

[TheMrElambia]

@metemi he was mixed,..from black and white.

[TeaBag43]

@metemi White if you look at his pictures.

[Carismystic]

Pure magic and I love the rifts, reminds me of Wes Montgomery.

[lagarw]

@DirtyDeck loooooool

[cookiesgood1]

THIS IS AMAZING O_O 

[guitarsurfer2010]

This is one cool composiion.

Blues wrapped around jazz.

An unusual and hip composition.

Oh yeah and delicious guitar playing

[URBANLAKEMUSIC]

@guitarsurfer2010 soul music

[joe0strummer]

He was amazing in concert-- you could hear his guitar talking with the other instruments. Absolute mastery.

[keashle]

Nothing a good classic song to get you through the afternnoon. I love Kenny Burrell, few ever came close to touching his greatness.

[crazyurmel2]

Super

Grosse Klasse !

[hoboboxerjoe]

I'm one of those youths that feels like half of me is getting torn in half, thrust into a time I never saw. The other half wants to know everything about the future of science, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and of course, spaceships! :P

The rest of me wants to be stuck in a cool beatnik groove, romantisized to impossible levels visceral joyous jazz and blues.

[electricrevelations]

@hoboboxerjoe amen

[dhdanielh]

@hoboboxerjoe you're one of those youths with no friends

[easguitar]

I'll never forget back in 1969, when I thought the world revolved on the Clapton/Beck/Page/Bloomfield/H­endrix axis, a shipmate turned me on the the Organ Grinder Swing album featuring Kenny Burrell on guitar. I almost fell off my chair listening to this warm, bluesy feel with advanced harmonic understanding and cool, unhurried delivery.I raved about it so much, the guy just let me have the album! One of the greatest...

[biggerturtle]

DB@easguitar Listen to Grant Green, Barney Kessel, Django,Wes - real guitar players and innovators. Hendrix was also, Clapton only sometimes , (Greeny was better) but Beck , Page and Bloomfield were all 3rd rate wannabes with no soul.

[Liebanus]

Y este es uno de los pocos albums que nunca se me hace pesado por más veces que lo escuche. Redondo.

[cosmo2631]

This is one of the classics in the history of jazz. One of my favorites for 45 years. Kenny is a master.

[kevm24z]

green m&m's, blue m&m's they all wind up the same colour in the end

[LesPaulGoldTop21]

Nice!

[Wisebrother78]

@kevm24z ,Kenny Burrell is Black...LOL..he's "light Skinned"...

[SRV4evr]

this is awesome!

[curlymaple2468]

I took up jazz guitar in 1975 and quickly learned that Kenny lived in the area. I was checking out a guitar at a music store once and when I looked up I saw Kenny listening to me. I was dumbfounded! He asked me what I thought of the guitar. He encouraged me to keep at it, and took the time to talk with me. He is a classy man, and I had the good fortune to hear him play live several times. Always a gentlemen, always sounded great and what a great ambassador for jazz. I love his playing.

[BlShkspr]

Back in the '70's I worked at CFOR in Orillia, Ontario and had the late night jazz show. So many of the albums featured Kenny Burrell on guitar, I took to calling him the Ubiquitous Kenny Burrell. One of the greatest sounds of the jazz guitar.

[jplent]

Kenny is class...

[megapanka]

What a great jazz work!I never get tired of hear this

[AZIARGROUS]

I'm freaking out... just so beautiful.

[418mhzcablefree]

Now this is what I call music ... this man is blessed! In fact, we have all been blessed, because we can listen to him. I have just had to listen to Derek Bailey - I am trying to get him ... but give me Mister Burrell anyday.

[jimineedles]

I want this on vinyl soooo sooo much!!!!

[guitarpicka1]

You`ve just got to love his sound..such a distinctive voice..It doesn`t matter who plays faster or who plays louder..Ken plays Great Guitar Music and Perfect Jazz...!!

[f1sk8mm]

recapitulation is my favorite album from him

[bronskiwantsyou]

wonderful musician !!!

[gsco82]

He's certainly one of my favorite jazz musicians. What a great piece of music!!

[ALFBRI2005]

From Venezuela , fantastico exquisita musica, gracias Mr Kenny.

Thank you Mr Kenny gold music

[Rickyyy001]

These guys will never be forgotten!!!

Founders of great GREAT jazz!!!

[vhfgtiuoiu]

Yes, it's all here. Anyone who doesn't appreciate this, doesn't like it or understand it. Too bad, they don't deserve to and just make it all the more magical for those who do...

Driving to work with Kenny Burrell and looking at an amazing sunset, it didn't matter my heart was split in to. I fell in love with KB, well actually his music but you get what I mean!

[Xelanderthomas]

@vhfgtiuoiu I can't imagine what someone would hear about this man that wouldn't like it. It's gotta be some of the most listener friendly jazz music there is, without selling out.

[taildragger53]

@vhfgtiuoiu Same for me ..back in 1967 i got hooked on Kenny's sound & feel. Ever since, whenever i feel angered ot irritable Kenny's sound and even his his cool disposition seems to calm me instantly. He is the epitome of gracefulness, good manners & self control.

[cm0220ster]

@taildragger53 Still hooking people over 40 years later. Great album.

[taildragger53]

@cm0220ster Yes, very true. I think what created renewed interest in this outstanding album was when Stevie Ray Vaughan covered "Chitlin's Con Carne". Suddenly it had a new audience of SRV fans. But it's very hard for anyone to re-capture the cool feel of this Blue Note session.

[SRV4evr]

@taildragger53 Stevie's "Stang's Swang" was also a nod to the great Burrell, and demonstrated SRV's range. I've often wondered where Stevie would have taken his music had he lived. This is just straight up cool.

[BC18DA]

Check out Kenny's playing with Jimmy Smith also !

[movinny]

One of the all time greats .....!!!!!!!!!!!

[Isntthisalreadytaken]

How anyone couldn't love this is beyond me.

[Tezman82]

Man! He's in the pocket!

[riculi]

Just Amazing¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[integral]

So great.

Still hoping someone will post Kenny doing

Do What You Gotta Do

[mediamanny53]

Snap Baby Snap!! Cool just the way I like it...Gracias Chalone

[brasilballer]

Fantastic.

[deen911]

One of my favorite jazz songs! Love it!

[FunnyGuy215329]

Great groove!!!!!!!!!