Since the '50s, Kenny Burrell has contributed crucial titles to some of the most important jazz labels, including Blue Note, Verve, Columbia, and Muse. For his 96th album, Burrell sticks to what's ...

Tenor saxophonists and bossa nova go together like coffee and cream. These two albums from Tower Records' "Exclusive CDs from Blue Note compilation series feature some of the best from both worlds in ...

Midnight Blue is a 1963 album by jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, and is one ...

Guitarist Kenny Burrell celebrated his 75th birthday last year by doing something for the 99th time: He recorded a new album. Burrell came to Yoshi's in Berkeley, Calif., to play a four-night run in ...

Known as Duke Ellington's favorite guitarist, Kenny Burrell was a master of the blues. In 1963, he recorded Midnight Blue, which jazz commentator... Kenny Burrell: 'Midnight Blue' [MUSIC] MURRAY ...

Two strong new albums by Southern California-based jazz masters explore some of their abiding passions and concerns. The latest posthumous release by bass legend Charlie Haden, who died at the age of ...

In the 1950s, three African American jazz guitarists emerged from the industrial Midwest, electrifying fans and showing very different paths forward on their instrument. By the mid-’60s, two of them ...

The first question was why Kenny Burrell, the guitar master who recorded with John Coltrane and Aretha Franklin and released many of his own albums during Blue Note’s golden age, found himself in such ...

One of the latest in Craft Recordings’ stellar re-boot of the Original Jazz Classics (OJC) reissue series, the new edition of Kenny Burrell is arguably better than an “OG” release. Consistent with the ...

When you needed a guitarist back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, you called Kenny Burrell. Yep, dial 1… Kenny! A native of Detroit, Burrell emerged as the pre-eminent guitarist of the hard bop era. He was on ...

LOS ANGELES — It had been more than two years since Jacques Lesure had seen Kenny Burrell, 87 , but the legendary jazz guitarist seemed okay on the phone in April. No mention of overwhelming medical ...