Kenny Burrell

I'll do my best.

But of course, Ike Quebec on tenor sax, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Wendell Marshall on bass, Willie Bobo on drums, and Garvin Massau on shaklee.

If I'm getting that right, a shaker.

And recorded October 5th, 1962 at Van Gelder Studio, Inglewood Cliffs, New Jersey, of course.

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The opening, Loewy, was written by Kenny Burrell for his wife.

This is the tune's first recording.

But yeah, I was in that in-between era of I grew up loving Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck and Hendrix, and then I was trying to get into Wes Montgomery and Grant Green and studying with...

Ted Dunbar, who was Wes Montgomery's protege, and Kenny Burrell came by our school, and we hung out with him for a week and played, and it was an amazing learning experience.

And I'm glad I got all that in my ear, and I could take that into the studio work in New York with me.

I wasn't just a three-chord rocker.

Whether it's the gear or the players who made the gear famous, join me each episode as we discuss all things guitar.

So when we talk about the great jazz guitarists, names like Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Kenny Burrell usually come up pretty quickly.

But there's another player who belongs right alongside them, and in terms of groove and pure bluesy feel, he might be one of the most instantly recognizable guitarists in jazz history.

And that guitarist is Grant Green.

I had to do it for that song.

um this one i i got maybe just for the cover this is jimmy smith jazz organist doing midnight special so we got jimmy smith on organ stanley turrentine on tenor sax kenny burrell on guitar and donald bailey on drums there's some good stuff on here so i was always a much

bigger keenan mccardell guy i thought he opened up the field for brunel much more than smith did but teach their own god again their own

Every time I've edited out so much Keenan McArdle stuff from you, Russell, I'm going to let this one slide.

That one features Medesky, Martin, and Wood on the tune A Go-Go.

Before that, another one of my friends, Kenny Burrell, the guitarist, along with John Coltrane for the tune La Resto.

Now here's keyboardist Sullivan Fortner.

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He loves George Benson.

Kenny Burrell was a dear friend of his.

So yeah, a lot of inspiration all over the map, really.

It's funny, that gig I went to see, and I probably talked about this before, but I went to see him in Pennsylvania.

So they did a, Dan Morgenstern, the editor, did a special issue on the top guitarists of the moment as he saw it.

So he had Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, and George Freeman on the cover.

So he thought George and Morgenstern thought George was one of the greatest at that time.

And he, and I think a lot of people kind of slept on George a little.

For the next three and a half hours, we're gonna be featuring pianos on the show this afternoon, including the birthday of the great Mal Waldron that's coming up in a couple of days, and a number of other pianists who have new releases or who celebrate birthdays today.

The one exception, or one of the exceptions, is Kenny Burrell, who took in the theme this afternoon.

We missed his birthday a couple of weeks ago.

He turned 85 on July 31st, and we heard him there from 1996, live at the Blue Note with Roland Hanna on piano, Ray Drummond on the bass, and Sherman Ferguson on drums, with a whole bunch of guests making up the Jazz Heritage All-Stars.

Grant Green on guitar.

Kenny Burrell on his jazz guitar.

And the tune, Saturday Night Blues.

Thank you.

Now then, we come towards the end of the jazz session with Tony Davenport on the radio at broadcast.com and I'm playing out with a couple of tracks, firstly from the 50s and the 70s.

Firstly, Kenny Burrell from Blue Lights Volume 1 in 1958 and The Scotch Blues.

Then George Benson from Bad Benson in 1974 and My Latin Brother.

I hope you enjoyed the show.