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Kenny Burrell
Biography
Kenny Burrell
Born
July 31, 1931 in Detroit, MI

Years Active:
50s | 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s | Current

 
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. ...
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Selected Discography:
  Album Title Released Label Price
75th Birthday Bash Live!



2007 Blue Note $6.99
The Artist Selects



2005 Blue Note $6.99
Midnight Blue (Remastered)



1963 RVG/Blue Note $6.99
A Night At The Vanguard (Remastered)



1959 Verve $6.99
AMG Top Pick
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Performed Songs By
The Duke Ellington Orchestra Duke Ellington Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins Tommy Flanagan George Gershwin Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie (w/ Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins) Benny Goodman Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins The Thelonious Monk Quartet Featuring John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Charlie Parker Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Cole Porter Michael Tilson Thomas Nat Adderley John Coltrane/Hank Mobley/Al Cohn Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole Miles Davis & Bill Laswell Miles Davis Miles Davis & John Coltrane Miles Davis & Gil Evans Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Miles Davis Featuring Sonny Rollins Billy Eckstine Erroll Garner Hank Mobley Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan Sonny Rollins Frank Sinatra T-Bone Walker Clifford Brown Clifford Brown & Max Roach Duke Jordan Duke Pearson Lester Young

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