''Blue Lights'' is an album by American jazz guitarist
Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...
recorded in 1958 and released on the
Blue Note
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label as two 12 inch LPs entitled ''Volume 1'' and ''Volume 2''.
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accessed January 20, 2011 The cover features artwork by
Andy Warhol
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.
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''San Francisco Chronicle
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'', February 8, 2009. The album was subsequently reissued (with a re-ordered track sequence) as separate CDs and a two disc set combining ''Volume 1'' and ''Volume 2''.
Reception
The
AllMusic
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review by
Scott Yanow
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Biography
Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles.
Since 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles an ...
awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Guitarist Kenny Burrell leads a very coherent jam session in the studio with a particularly strong cast".
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Track listing
:''All compositions by Kenny Burrell except as indicated''
:''Volume 1''
# "Yes Baby" - 11:15
# "Scotch Blues" (
Duke Jordan
Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist.
Biography
Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regula ...
) - 8:00
# "
Autumn in New York" (
Vernon Duke
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) - 5:44
# "
Caravan
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Duke Ellington
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,
Irving Mills
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Personal
Mills was ...
,
Juan Tizol
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) - 9:55
:''Volume 2''
# "Rock Salt" - 11:19
# "
The Man I Love" (
George Gershwin
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,
Ira Gershwin
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) - 6:47
# "Chuckin'" (
Sam Jones) - 12:10
# "Phinupi" - 9:47
:''Bonus track on CD reissue''
# "I Never Knew" (
Ted Fio Rito
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,
Gus Kahn
Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886October 8, 1941) was an American lyricist who contributed a number of songs to the Great American Songbook, including "Pretty Baby", "Ain't We Got Fun?", "Carolina in the Morning", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' By ...
) - 12:37 (Disc 1, Track #5)
*Recorded at Manhattan Towers in New York City on May 14, 1958.
Personnel
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Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...
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guitar
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*
Louis Smith -
trumpet
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Tina Brooks
Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks (June 7, 1932 – August 13, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer best remembered for his work in the hard bop style.
Early years
Harold Floyd Brooks was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, an ...
(''Volume 1'': tracks 2, 3 & 5; ''Volume 2'': tracks 1-3),
Junior Cook
Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992) was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player.
Biography
Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook was a member of the Horace Silver Quin ...
(''Volume 1'': tracks 1-3 & 5; ''Volume 2'': tracks 1-3) -
tenor saxophone
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Duke Jordan
Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist.
Biography
Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regula ...
(''Volume 1''),
Bobby Timmons
Robert Henry Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods (July 1958 to September 1959; February 1960 to June 1961), between which he w ...
(''Volume 2'') -
piano
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Sam Jones -
bass
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Art Blakey
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Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...
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drums
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References
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Blue Note Records albums
Kenny Burrell albums
1958 albums
Albums produced by Alfred Lion
Albums with cover art by Andy Warhol