''Asphalt Canyon Suite'' is a studio album by the

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

guitarist Kenny Burrell. It was recorded in 1969 and released on the

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label.All About Jazz Kenny Burrell discography
accessed August 7, 2012

Track listing

''All compositions by Kenny Burrell except as indicated'' # "Asphalt Canyon Suite Part 1: Introduction / Asphalt Canyon Blues" - 9:05 # "Asphalt Canyon Suite Part 2: Think About It / Better Get Your Thing Together / Alone in the City" - 11:37 # "

Things Ain't What They Used to Be "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" is a 1942 jazz standard with music by Mercer Ellington and lyrics by Ted Persons. Background In 1941 there was a strike against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which Duke Ellington ...

" ( Mercer Ellington) - 3:15 # "

Put a Little Love in Your Heart "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. In the U.S., it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 ...

" ( Jackie DeShannon,

Jimmy Holiday Jimmy Holiday (July 24, 1934 – February 15, 1987) was an American R&B singer and songwriter. Holiday was born in Sallis, Mississippi, United States. He recorded for Everest Records in the 1960s and later moved to the New Orleans label Minit R ...

, Randy Myers) - 4:15 # " Please Send Me Someone to Love" (

Percy Mayfield Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920August 11, 1984) was an American Rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He also was a songwriter, known for the songs " Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", the latter being a song ...

) - 4:30 # "Going to Jim and Andy's" - 3:00 # "Sugar Hill" - 4:58

Personnel

* Kenny Burrell -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Roland Hanna -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Unidentified Orchestra arranged by Johnny Pate

References

{{Authority control Kenny Burrell albums 1969 albums Verve Records albums Albums produced by Johnny Pate Albums arranged by Johnny Pate