Introducing Kenny Burrell: The First Blue Note Sessions

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Introducing Kenny Burrell: The First Blue Note Sessions
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Compilation album by
Kenny Burrell
Released2000
RecordedMay 29–30, 1956 (1-9)
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
March 12, 1956 (CD2 1-6)
Audio-Video Studios, New York
February 10, 1956 (CD2 7-11)
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre Jazz
Length118:38
Label Blue Note
Blue Note 24561
Producer Alfred Lion
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Introducing Kenny Burrell: The First Blue Note Sessions is a compilation album by jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell. It compiles:

Introducing Kenny Burrell (Disc 1, #1-7)
Kenny Burrell Volume 2 (Disc 1, #8-9; Disc 2 #1-4 and 6)
K. B. Blues (Disc 2, #7-11) (1979, Blue Note Japan, GXF-3052)

Contents

The album also features the outtake "My Heart Stood Still", originally appeared on the hard to find Swingin' (GXF-3070). All the tracks were recorded mainly at Van Gelder Studio between February and May 1956 and were produced by Alfred Lion.

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Burrell except as indicated

Disc One

  1. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen, Mercer) - 5:00
  2. "Fugue 'N Blues" - 6:48
  3. "Takeela" - 4:19
  4. "Weaver of Dreams" (Elliott, Young) - 4:43
  5. "Delilah" (Young) - 6:04
  6. "Rhythmorama" (Kenny Clarke) - 6:28
  7. "Blues for Skeeter" - 8:08
  8. "Get Happy" (Arlen, Koehler) - 4:02
  9. "But Not for Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:49

Disc Two

  1. "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) - 6:08
  2. "Cheetah" - 4:43
  3. "Now See How You Are" (Woody Harris, Oscar Pettiford) - 5:54
  4. "Phinupi" - 4:42
  5. "My Heart Stood Still" (Hart, Rodgers) - 5:13
  6. "How About You?" (Lane, Ralph Freed) - 5:14
  7. "K.B. Blues" - 6:24
  8. "D.B. Blues" (Young) - 5:50
  9. "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) - 9:37
  10. "Out for Blood" - 9:06
  11. "K.B. Blues" [Alternate Take] - 6:16

Disc One recorded on May 29–30, 1956;
Disc Two #1-6 on March 12, 1956; #7-11 on February 10, 1956.

Personnel

Disc One

Disc Two #1-6

Disc Two #7-11

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References

  1. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 200. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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