Kenny Burrell
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Kenny Burrell, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Kenny Burrell
K.B. Blues
Blue Note Tone Poet SeriesKenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
Blue Note Tone Poet Series
Kenny Burrell
Night Song
Kenny Burrell
Asphalt Canyon Suite
Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Smith, Percy France
Home Cookin'
Kenny Burrell
A Night At The Vanguard
Original LP TracksKenny Burrell
Ode To 52nd Street
Kenny Burrell, The Jazz Guitar Band
Pieces Of Blue And The Blues
LiveKenny Burrell
Introducing Kenny Burrell
Blue Note Tone Poet Series
Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate
Organ Grinder Swing
ReissueKai Winding, Kenny Burrell
Soul Surfin'
Jimmy Heath Quintet, Kenny Burrell, Wynton Kelly
On The Trail
Kenny Burrell
A Generation Ago Today
Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane
Interplay For 2 Trumpets And 2 Tenors
Hi Res [96/24]
Kenny Burrell, Coleman Hawkins
Bluesy Burrell
Rudy Van Gelder Remaster / Optimized for Digital
Kenny Burrell
On View At The Five Spot Cafe
DSD
Kenny Burrell
Midnight Blue
Rudy Van Gelder Edition/1999 Remaster
Kenny Burrell
Standards (Great Songs/Great Performances)
Kenny Burrell, John Coltrane
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Remastered
Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell
The Master II
John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan
The Cats
Remastered
Kenny Burrell
Lucky So and So
Kenny Burrell
Lotus Blossom
Kenny Burrell
75Th Birthday Bash Live!
LiveDonald Byrd, Kenny Burrell
All Night Long
Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd
All Day Long
Kenny Burrell
Soul Call
Kenny Burrell
Bluesy Burrell
Kenny Burrell
Blue Muse
Kenny Burrell
Ballad Essentials
Kenny Burrell
Prestige Profiles: Kenny Burrell
With Collector's Edition Bonus Disc
Kenny Burrell
Prestige Profiles
Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell And The Jazz Giants
Kenny Burrell
The Best Of Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
The Artist Selects
Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton
Here's Love
Kenny Burrell
Soulero
Kenny Burrell
Blues - The Common Ground
Kenny Burrell
Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas
LPR
Stanley Turrentine, Bob Cranshaw, Kenny Burrell
Hustlin'
Kenny Burrell
Introducing Kenny Burrell: The First Blue Note Sessions
Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Donald Bailey
Six Views Of The Blues
Kenny Burrell
Blue Bash
Kenny Burrell
Guitar Forms
Kenny Burrell
Verve Jazz Masters 45
Kenny Burrell
The Best Of Kenny Burrell - The Blue Note Years
Kenny Burrell
At The Five Spot Cafe
Kenny Burrell, Grover Washington, Jr.
Togethering
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Kenny Burrell, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
BIOGRAFIA
After 40 years as a jazz professional, appearing on several hundred albums as leader and sideman, Kenny Burrell is among the handful of guitar greats who have forever changed the role of their instrument.
Staunch musical integrity and discriminate taste coupled with matchless technique have made the guitarist nonpareil among his peers. "My goal is to play with good tone, good phrasing and to swing," says Burrell, "I strive for honesty in playing what I feel."
"Master instrumentalist and composer," "virtuoso," "historic figure of American guitar." "Ellington's favorite guitar player" - this is a typical sampling of the critical praise routinely bestowed on Burrell, who pioneered the guitar-led trio with bass and drums in the late Fifties. Although he has since worked in countless other formats, from big band to three guitars plus rhythm to solo, he has remained constant in his quest to get the most out of a natural, low-volume, acoustic sound. "My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet," he explains. "Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music."
Aside from his performing and recording schedule, Kenny has been a teacher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for many years. Included in his teaching schedule is a special course that he developed on the music and life of Duke Ellington called "Ellingtonia". Started in 1978, it was the first regualr college course on Ellington taught in the United States. In addition he is also the founder and director of the Jazz Studies Program at UCLA where he is a professor of music and ethnomusicology. He is also a lecturer and director of workshops on guitar and Jazz studies, founder and President Emeritus, of the Jzz Heritage Foundation, and all around crusader for the recognition of jazz as a classical art form.
Kenny Burrell is also a prolific composer whose work is more and more in demand. Kenny is composer of the 1998 Grammy Award winning song "Dear Ella", performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater. His compositions have been recorded by many other great artists such as Ray Brown, Jimmy Smith, Grover Washington Jr., John Coltrane, June Christy, Frank Wes and Stevie Ray Vaughn. More recently, he recieved a commission grant from Meet the Composer, Inc. to write an original, extended composition for the Boys Choir of Harlem which premiered at New York's Lincoln Center, and in 1997 was recorded for Concord Records.
Kenny is a man who has garnered the respect of the entire jazz world. "He's one of jazz's most gracious gentlemen," says pianist Mike Wofford, "an educator and spokesperson for the entire tradition of American Jazz, Kenny is truly a goodwill ambassador for our music, and more importantly, a representative of the best in our society."
Born in Detroit, Kenny Burrell was raised in a musical family. His mother, who sang in the Second Baptist Church choir, also played the piano around the house. His father was fond of the banjo and the ukulele. "He was just the kind of guy who could pick up string instruments and do something with 'em." Kenny recalls, - "It kinda rubbed off on us."
Kenny, who credits Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, as well as such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters, played on his first major recording session in Detroit in 1951 with a Dizzy Gillespie combo that included John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, and Percy Heath. Even though the young guitarist was keeping heavy company, including that of such other up-and-coming Detroiters as Tommy Flanagan, Yusef Lateef, Pepper Adams, and Elvin Jones, he remained in Detroit to study at Wayne State University, from which he earned a B.A. in music composition and theory in 1955. He also studied classical guitar with Joseph Fava during that period and continues to employ finger-style and other techniques.
A six-month tour in 1955 with the Oscar Peterson Trio helped to set Burrell's sight on the Big Apple. The following year, he and Flanagan drove to New York City and were promptly drafted into the major league of jazz. Burrell not only became the city's most indemand Jazz guitarist, recording with his own groups and with Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Thad Jones, Kenny Dorham, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Smith, Gene Ammons - and many others, but played on pop sessions with the likes of Tony Bennett, James Brown and Lena Horn and worked in the pit bands of such Broadway shows as Bye Bye Birdie and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
In all, Burrell has recorded more than ninety albums as a leader. This body of work has received much critical acclaim.
Since the mid-Sixties, the guitarist has been leading his own group plus working in "All-Star" settings and has performed with college bands and orchestras. He has also performed with professional orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Though his combos vary in personnel, size and instrumentation, integrity and invention have constantly guided his music. "My inspiration comes from the message Duke gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music."
Kenny Burrell has been the recipient of many awards and has been voted "Best Guitarist" numerous times by music fans and critics worldwide. Recently he recieved this honor for the second time from the Jazz Times International Readers Poll.
His music and recordings have recieved much international recognition including the "Prix de Disc" from Switzerland. He has also received many academic honors including a Doctorate of Human Letters, and the 1997 Ellington Fellowship awarded by Yale Universtiy. He was voted "favorite Jazz Musician" by listeners of KLON Jazz Station in Los Angeles in 1996 and was inducted into the KLON Jazz Hall of Fame. He served on the awards panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and was the National Chairperson for guitars for the National Association of Jazz Educators. He has been dubbed America's "guitar laureate" by the Detroit Free Press.
Some quotes of fellow musicians on Kenny Burrell:
"Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite." - B.B. King
"Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar." - Dizzy Gillespie
"There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell" - George Benson
"Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for." - Jimi Hendrix
"Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today." - Stevie Wonder
"Kenny Burrell is one of my Favorite guitarists" - Pat Metheny
Courtesy of The Verve Music Group
