Ode to 52nd Street

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Ode to 52nd Street
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Studio album by Kenny Burrell
Released 1967
Recorded September 1967
Tel Mar Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Label Cadet
LPS 798
Producer Richard Evans
Kenny Burrell chronology
A Generation Ago Today
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(1967)		 Blues - The Common Ground
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Ode to 52nd Street is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1967 and released on the Cadet label. [1]

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.

Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around 1974, when its artists were moved to Chess.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars in a review by Scott Yanow that stated "Burrell plays quite well, as usual (he is among the most consistent of jazz improvisers), and, even if the music is not all that memorable, the results are pleasing". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Burrell and Richard Evans except as indicated

  1. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 1: So Little Time" - 5:05
  2. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 2: Growing" - 4:12
  3. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 3: Round and Round We Go" - 5:28
  4. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 4: Recapitulation" - 2:58
  5. "I Want My Baby Back" - 3:00
  6. "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:29
  7. "Soulero" (Evans) - 3:02
  8. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:09
  9. "Blues Fuse" - 3:21

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.

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References

  1. ↑ All About Jazz Kenny Burrell discography accessed August 3, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed August 3, 2012
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