Search - Artist/Band: Kenny Burrell

• Name: Kenny Burrell
• Birthday: 07/31/1931
• Birth Place: Detroit, MI
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Soul Jazz
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Elegant, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Passionate, Playful, Refined/Mannered, Restrained, Sentimental, Sophisticated, Stylish, Delicate, Dramatic, Earnest, Earthy, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Literate, Organic, Reflective, Warm, Wistful, Witty, Wry

Title	Release
The Whole Picture: Kenny Burrell	03/25/2008
All Day Long/All Night Long	09/25/2007
In a Mellow Tone: The Smooth Swing of Kenny Burrell	07/25/2006
Prestige Profiles, Vol. 7	10/25/2005
Artist Selects	10/04/2005
Ballad Essentials W	01/25/2005
The Best of Kenny Burrell [Prestige]	09/28/2004
Giants of Jazz: Kenny Burrell	06/29/2004
Blue Note Years, Vol. 12	04/27/2004
Blue Muse	07/08/2003
Moten Swing!	07/23/2002
Stolen Moments: Tin Tin Deo/Moon and Sand	01/01/2002
Concerto de Aranjuez	12/19/2001
Stormy Monday Blues	08/28/2001
Lucky So and So	05/22/2001
Les Incontournables	03/28/2000
Gold Collection	01/01/2000
Kenny Burrell [Giants of Jazz]	12/07/1999
Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Giants	11/10/1998
The Concord Jazz Heritage Series	08/25/1998
Laid Back WA	04/28/1998
Love Is the Answer	04/28/1998
'Round Midnight WA	1998
Lotus Blossom WA	10/1995
Verve Jazz Masters 45	08/22/1995
Primal Blue WA	04/1995
The Best of Kenny Burrell [Blue Note]	03/07/1995
Gifts WA	1995
Crash! WA	03/28/1994
Collaboration	1994
Soft Winds WA	12/07/1993
Sunup to Sundown	1991
Togethering	02/15/1985
Listen to the Dawn WA	1980
Moon and Sand WA	12/1979
When Lights Are Low	09/1978
Handcrafted	1978
Tin Tin Deo	03/23/1977
Ellington Is Forever, Vol. 2 WA	1977
Ellington Is Forever, Vol. 1	1975
God Bless the Child	1971
Blues -- The Common Ground WA	1968
For Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman	1968
Ode to 52nd Street	09/1967
Soulero WA	1967
Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas WA	10/1966
Guitar Forms	1965
Soul Call WA	04/07/1964
Midnight Blue WA	01/06/1963
Blue Bash! WA	1963
Bluesy Burrell	09/14/1962
Bluesin' Around WA	1962
Blue Lights, Vol. 1	05/14/1958
Blue Lights, Vol. 2	05/14/1958
Blue Lights, Vols. 1-2	05/14/1958
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane WA	03/07/1958
After Hours	06/21/1957
The Cats WA	04/18/1957
Two Guitars WA	03/05/1957
Blue Moods WA	02/01/1957
Kenny Burrell	02/01/1957
Earthy WA	01/25/1957
All Day Long	01/04/1957
Monday Stroll WA	1957
All Night Long WA	12/28/1956
Introducing Kenny Burrell	05/29/1956

Kenny Burrell has been a very consistent guitarist throughout his career. cool-toned and playing in an unchanging style based in bop, Burrell has always been the epitome of good taste and solid swing. Duke Ellington's favorite guitarist (though he never actually recorded with him), Burrell started playing guitar when he was 12, and he debuted on records with Dizzy Gillespie in 1951. Part of the fertile Detroit jazz scene of the early '50s, Burrell moved to New York in 1956. Highly in demand from the start, Burrell appeared on a countless number of records as a leader and as a sideman. Among his more notable associations were dates with Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine, and Jimmy Smith. Starting in the early '70s, Burrell began leading seminars and teaching, often focusing on Duke Ellington's music. He toured with the Phillip Morris Superband during 1985-1986, and led three-guitar quintets, but generally Kenny Burrell plays at the head of a trio/quartet. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide