Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Vol.1 (1989)

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Artist: Kenny Burrell
Title Of Album: Blue Lights, Vol.1
Year Of Release: 1989
Label: Blue Note CDP 7 81596 2
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 48:27
Total Size: 214 MB

Tracklist:

01. Phinupi (Burrell) - 9:48
02. Yes Baby (Burrell) - 11:16
03. Scotch Blues (Jordan) - 7:59
04. The Man I Love (Gershwin) - 6:46
05. I Never Knew (Burrell) - 12:38

Louis Smith - trumpet
Junior Cook, Tina Brooks - tenor saxophones
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Duke Jordan - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Art Blakey - drums

Recorded at Manhattan Towers on May 14, 1958.
Digital Transfers by Ron McMaster.

On the first of two CD reissues, guitarist Kenny Burrell leads a strong jam session that features the talented but very underrated trumpeter Louis Smith (who sounds a bit like Lee Morgan), the similar but contrasting tenors of Junior Cook and Tina Brooks, pianist Duke Jordan, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Blakey. Jordan's tongue-in-cheek "Scotch Blues" and "I Never Knew" (the latter was not on the original LP) are among the high points of this enjoyable straight-ahead session.