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Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album)

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Released
  
Early May 1963

Artist
  
Kenny Burrell

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Midnight Blue (1963)
  
Crash! (1963)

Release date
  
1963

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Recorded
  
January 8, 1963 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Length
  
35:39 original LP 45:18 CD reissue

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz blues, Hard bop

Producers
  
Michael Cuscuna, Alfred Lion

Similar
  
Kenny Burrell albums, Jazz albums

Kenny burrell chitlins con carne


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 of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. Jazz Improv Magazine lists the album among its top five recommended recordings for Burrell, indicating that "[i]f you need to know 'the Blue Note sound', here it is". In 2005, NPR included the album in its "Basic Jazz Library", describing it as "one of the great jazzy blues records". The album has been re-issued by Blue Note and the French label Classics.

Contents

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Kenny Burrell.

  1. "Chitlins con Carne" – 5:30
  2. "Mule" (Burrell, Major Holley, Jr.) – 6:56
  3. "Soul Lament" – 2:43
  4. "Midnight Blue" – 4:02
  5. "Wavy Gravy" – 5:47
  6. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 4:25
  7. "Saturday Night Blues" – 6:16
  8. "Kenny's Sound" (reissue bonus track) – 4:43
  9. "K Twist" (reissue bonus track)– 3:36

Performance

  • Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone (except #3-4, 6, 9)
  • Major Holley – bass (except #3)
  • Bill English – drums (except #3)
  • Ray Barretto – conga (except #3, 6)

    • Production

  • Eric Bernhardi – graphic design
  • Bob Blumenthal – liner notes
  • Micaela Boland – design
  • Michael Cuscuna – producer, reissue producer
  • Leonard Feather – original liner notes
  • Gordon Jee – creative director
  • Alfred Lion – producer
  • Reid Miles – cover design, typography
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer, remastering
  • Tom Vasatka – Producer
  • Francis Wolff – photography, cover photo

    • Songs

    1Chitlins Con Carne5:27
    2Mule6:55
    3Soul Lament2:40

    References

    Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album) Wikipedia
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