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Ode to 52nd Street

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Released
  
1967

Artist
  
Kenny Burrell

Label
  
GRP

Producer
  
Richard Evans

Release date
  
1967

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 1967 Tel Mar Studios, Chicago

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Ode to 52nd Street is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1967 and released on the Cadet label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars in a review by Scott Yanow that stated "Burrell plays quite well, as usual (he is among the most consistent of jazz improvisers), and, even if the music is not all that memorable, the results are pleasing".

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Burrell and Richard Evans except as indicated

  1. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 1: So Little Time" - 5:05
  2. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 2: Growing" - 4:12
  3. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 3: Round and Round We Go" - 5:28
  4. "Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 4: Recapitulation" - 2:58
  5. "I Want My Baby Back" - 3:00
  6. "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:29
  7. "Soulero" (Evans) - 3:02
  8. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:09
  9. "Blues Fuse" - 3:21

Personnel

  • Kenny Burrell - guitar
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Evans

    • Songs

    1Theme I - So Little Time5:06
    2Theme II - Growing4:13
    3Theme III - Round And Round We Go5:28

    References

    Ode to 52nd Street Wikipedia
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