Listen to the Dawn

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Listen to the Dawn
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Studio album by Kenny Burrell
Released 1983
Recorded December 9–10, 1980
Studio Roxy Recording Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length35:20
Label Muse
MR 5264
Producer Helen Keane
Kenny Burrell chronology
Heritage
(1980) Heritage1980
Listen to the Dawn
(1980)
Groovin' High
(1981) Groovin' High1981

Listen to the Dawn is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in late 1980 and released on the Muse label in 1983. [1] [2] [3]

Kenny Burrell American jazz guitarist

Kenneth Earl Burrell is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit album Organ Grinder Swing. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters.

Muse Records

Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The Allmusic review called it a "Sharp trio set" and stated: "The results are uniformly solid, sometimes more emphatic than others. Burrell is still playing in a relaxed, easy groove, but occasionally increases the energy level". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Burrell except where noted.

  1. "Yours Is My Heart Alone" (Franz Lehar, Harry B. Smith) – 3:30
  2. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 6:14
  3. "You're My Everything" (Harry Warren, Mort Dixon, Joe Young) – 6:27
  4. "Listen to the Dawn" – 5:37
  5. "Isabella" – 5:31
  6. "It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 5:05
  7. "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 5:56
  8. "Papa Joe" – 5:21

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. Muse LP series discography: 5250 to 5299 accessed April 13, 2017
  2. Muse Records discography accessed April 13, 2017
  3. Kenny Burrell catalog accessed April 13, 2017
  4. 1 2 Wynn, Ron. Listen to the Dawn – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 13, 2017.