All Blues- Kenny Burrell

[@petedambski3792]

Kenny lived across the street from me in the 70's and would come over often. His then wife Michi. Always complain to my mom. He don't pay attention to me, all he does is play his damn guitar. LOL. Really nice person.

[@charliebrown8674]

Love the way he picks out the melody on top of the chords. What a tasteful player. And much underrated I feel.

[@reddyreyalls869]

Don't get higher rating than #1 (won several years' Downbeat polls)...well deserved!

[@guitargentmick-tv8424]

One of the greats ...

[@sega62s]

underrated ? Metheny loves him and I do…..so there you go

[@225marklin3]

@@sega62s Me too. (And countless others.)

[@hoffy1003]

Maybe he serves so much more adoration. In THAT respect he's underrated. But, he's on top, always been on top, and every guitar player I know, whomever else they know, Kenny is on that list. ALWAYS. Kenny is the guitarist that made me want to play Jazz.

[@jonwill]

Surely Mr. Burrell worked as hard as any master artist to perfect his craft. But his magnificent sense of phrasing must certainly be a gift. It must be. It is his genius. And the pleasure he engenders in applying it identifies him as truly one of a kind.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

Great to see this being played on an acoustic, I always think acoustic guitar is overlooked for jazz/blues

[@christinahauser990]

Kenny Burrell has the coolest voice ever.

[@organjoe]

Went to see Tommy Flanagan in a small club a few years back . Thought it was a trio gig.Then I watched Kenny come out and join him on stage. Talk about your mega-bonus!!

[@gvbaker55]

Masterful! The definition of tasty chops.

[@snowfiresunwind]

Kenny Burrell - one amazing guitarist that's for sure - just beautiful!

[@bluesbaby8]

Here's one guy that doesn't need anything but a straight up acoustic to sound absolutely wonderful! Go Kenny!

[@3158030Michael]

Kenny Burrell, old school, most uniq and jazz classics phenomenal musician! Just love his music!

[@jantrieger4500]

me too! dig his tone.

[@phileejazzlocks]

I'm in class with Kenny right now, he asked me to look up some of his vids!... haha

[@tishierkrisis]

Thank you so much for posting this, it's so awesome. KB is definitely one of my favourite players, along with Grant Green. So much blues in his lines, just love him.

[@rboaxx9065]

His sound and Blues are his own "trademark"... IoI

[@EddieHaskelll]

Thanks for this! Great stuff!!! None better than Kenny Burrell. Say, I see by the credits at the end that this was produced for public television by the local PBS station in San Diego. 170 million Americans use public broadcasting. Plus YOU and everyone else who watches this! Without public TV and radio we wouldn't have this treasure nor all the thousands of hours of other wonderful stuff. Keep supporting public broadcasting... and let your senator and congressperson know, so they will.

[@miguel4cuerdas]

Espero que ustedes tengan mejor suerte que nosotros. En la Argentina ya casi las demolieron.

[@taildragger53]

@6stringdaveyM You have summed it up far better than i ever could....had to give you a thumbs up.

[@kodebruijn4753]

still listening to the great music of the Jazz pioneers, unsurpassed masters.

[@kevinkinnu341]

This is how one of the all time greats plays a great song

[@DetestProtest]

His balance is just, impeccable really. Every thing he does makes sense, even when he gets more into the technical spectrum. Life assumes new meaning filtered through the concepts of his guitar work. God send us more musicians of his caliber and taste!

[@J.Dove3D]

Beautiful tone and touch. A great player on a great tune. This will cure what ails you. Bravo.

[@seanhennessey9869]

one of my all time favorite guitarists, dig him playing a steel string acoustic!...also, I swear, you know how they have that "missing limb" phenomenon where you feel your arm or leg even if it is missing?...I could hear a piano and /or trumpet in the song`s head in the background, no doubt as a result of listening to the orginal version of this song a billion times

[@guitar19971]

I know what you mean dude I could have sworn there was another instrument playing the melody but it was just him. I've played guitar for 11 years and I can't do that. I'm new to jazz so it's exciting discovering all these amazing instrumentalists. I mean Burrell is making his guitar freaking sing here with just his hands.

[@brynttr]

Sean Hennessey Yeah! I thought so too.

[@Phazur]

I was hearing some extra thing too and then I noticed him played that lead too!

[@gerardguitarist]

Ya, the thing about Kenny is that he never overplays and always stays under it and in the pocket. NO RUSH. LOL.

[@jimwilliams5887]

Mr. Fergusson, Mr. Magnusson, and Mr. Burrell are Spectacular! Awesome talent!

[@gerardguitarist]

I'm copping Kenny's take on this required standard. There are some VERY interesting options to explore over the V chord leading to the turnaround.

[@graigjayboy9844]

this is just ....amazing. its so seamless, intricate, and the energy...

[@RaiderEleven]

The excellence of jazz guitar giant Kenny Burrell on full display. BBKing says Kenny is his favorite and one of the all time greats. I agree and Bob and Sherman are wonderful trio mates, soloing with aplomb and technical assurance.

[@jefffoster3557]

Love how he goes into "Do What You Got To Do" at the end as well. I was introduced to Kenny's music by his wonderful "God Bless The Child" release and went back further from there.Recognized the name in my dad's jazz collection which he also had Midnight Blue.....dad's taste wasn't bad after all!

[@MrPj74]

this 's the best version of this tune ever !

[@bgrierofficial]

My gosh, this is great 😀😀😀

[@markspeedy07]

Kenny Burrell taught a jazz class on Duke Ellington when I was at Ucla in the 80s. He was very humble and unassuming. We had no idea of who he was until a guest speaker talked about him. He's an awesome guitarist.

[@goral705]

Cool and bluesy , that´s Kenny Burrell .

[@rasdennis]

Superb chord melody playing One of the masters on the guitar Thanks for posting

[@brettnhomer]

Kenny is all class. I used to tend bar at Elario's in La Jolla while in college. I saw the best of the best. Bob Magnason and Sherman were with the "House" band. Bob(?) Plank on drums too. Kenny treated everyone with such respect. I even invented a drink (non alcoholic) for Bob Magnason called..."The MAG"..LOL..Great times great memories

[@Fretliner]

Brilliant interpreation, one of the best I've heard... Thx for posting

[@microcosmic2]

Oh yeah ,one of my favourite guitarist.Superb version.Great musicians with KB too.

[@MinkShmink]

Happy Birthday Mr. Guitar! Keep the strings singing! You are GENIUS!

[@hamhockdoc]

he was one of my favorites also one of my first influences with the Edgar Winter Jazz quartet in 1962

[@gitrman2]

Kenny has a unique talent for playing his style of jazz. I like how he harmonizes his notes with great tasting guitar chords.

[@rboaxx9065]

Absolutely! Unique.

[@Perico14ful]

Que hermoso tema, yo lo escuche en la radio KK GGO Los Angeles en los años 80 y quede maravillado. Gracias por compartir....

[@MOGLIDER]

Great music & acoustic guitar sound.Bob Magnusson on bass and Sherman Ferguson on drums - superb.Thanks for posting this.More please!

[@thesweetprince]

Bob’s solo is masterful

[@vinyltapelover]

Aaaah yes! The man never disappoints. He epitomizes smooth. I have been a fan since 1964(Midnight Blue). Thank you for this post. I got to put seeing him perform live on my Bucketlist.

[@joehiggs100]

One of the masters! wonderful, thanks.

[@markjamesmason]

This is so good! On an acoustic none the less.

[@bobslove]

gonna be singing for him in the gospel choir this saturday for his 80th celebration and BB KING is gonna be there ^^

[@PaulTillery]

IMO, Bob Magnusson is the most underrated bassist still alive on the west coast. Also he is a super nice guy with a great attitude.

[@jefferzone61]

OUTSTANDING! Thanks for the post and the inspiration!

[@brunomele3444]

Fraseado monstro! O timbre desse violão de aço dele é animal também, e a guitarra então... Sem comentários, ele passeia pelo tema que é muito louco, diga-se de passagem. Lembro que assistia ao Club Date quando era transmitido na TV Cultura. Se não me engano, depois do Kenny veio o Joe Pass (solo e com esses mesmos músicos da casa, que são excelentes também). Saudade, ao mesmo me sinto privilegiado em poder curtir isso novamente tanto tempo depois. Tenho tudo gravado em VHS! Valeu!

[@jean-lucbersou758]

Duke Ellington's favourite guitarist !

[@johnwhitworth1328]

we love the cool burrell style double woof

[@jantrieger4500]

have MIDNIGHT BLUE on vinyl,, ooh man, what good stuff!

[@mojoefly]

when i was young i used to watch a tv program where jazz musicians would use childrens toys and all these random objects to get percussive and even melodic sounds during the concerts. are there video's like that on youtube.

[@dazerfernaza]

shivers at that drum solo

[@adaptiveagile]

This is so killer. Thank you.

[@greyhall1]

You should all hear Kenny playing on Chet baker's album "Chet For lovers" & the track "everything depends on you." It is some of the best comping I have ever heard. It's perfect.

[@pineapplepeanuts]

He took one of my favorite jazz songs and ran with it. Pretty awesome :-)

[@bradspence9864]

How can anyone give this a thumbs down? 🤨

[@barry0517]

Love the use of both flat top and his jazz electric. Nice job.

[@MusGuiJa]

Really great playing - magnificent

[@TheGoldenNugget8]

Yeah, and I like the versions played on this show better than the ones that he actually recorded. Sounds so much better stripped down. I wish there was an album of this.

[@MrPj74]

this is my favorite version of this tune

[@smoovegittar]

That was great! Thanks!

[@TonyAlbert]

How can anyone dislike? Is Greeeaaaaaaatttttttttt...

[@moretubes]

i think jimi once was quoted as saying 'i am just trying to sound like jimi hendrix'...now diehard Kenny Burrell fans would say that jimi didnt do a very good job. I love both. Kennys album Midnight Blue is exceptional.

[@berttnj]

@berttnj To answer my own question and FYI it's from "god bless the child" and it's called "do what you gotta do" this is the outro song during the credits. This man is genius!

[@theguitarvirtuosoforgod1152]

That’s an amazing drummer. Who is he? I really dig the drum solo he played here.

[@jazzguitarlicks]

Great !!!

[@blazelh]

now this is good music.

[@carletto67]

grande chitarrista e ancora di più come musicista !

[@mahoose6]

What a man Kenny Burrell :D

[@RaffaeleDanieleQuarta]

@knoxtunes No, my friend, he played 12 Bars, and then those wonderful Riff, as an extra. The crowd appreciated it too, not only me. Form helps playing together, but when the whole Band AND the crowd vibes together, it can be that the form could be modified. Important is sinergy.

[@ghairraigh]

Great Artists don’t stand pat, and Kenny Burrell is no exception. Surely he has been playing the tune since the late 1950s. Here are a bunch of surprises in a new arrangement, first off, the opening on acoustic guitar. Notice how Kenny interjects alternating bass notes on the ‘and’ of one and four (D, F, starting @0:15) into the original Trane/Cannonball two-part background figure at the top, with expanded harmony. He manages to continue that groove as he used to do under Miles’ melody, but it is now played up an octave. There are some sizeable stretches over 5 frets required to add the melody to those voicings, but they are so gracefully and smoothly done. At Bar 10, Kenny plays the melody note A over D7#9, and then plays a D13 chord with the melody note D on top in the last half of the bar. After his solo, Kenny continues comping for Bob Magnusson… and then magically reappears with his Gibson Super 400 to finish the tune with a more aggressive solo. Have you ever - EVER - seen anyone trade eights with the drummer on this tune? Kenny plays his newly arranged head on the out-chorus on electric guitar, and, with the slightest turn of his body toward Bob Magnusson, cues the thrice-repeated last line of the melody and the gentle ritardando* at the end. Kenny has wonderfully re-imagined and revitalized “All Blues” - rather than playing it the same old way - and it is all done, BEAUTIFULLY. Kenny ends the set with a brief reprise of "Do What You Got To Do" from his album ‘God Bless The Child’. • Malcolm MacDonald, September 12, 2017. *That will send you guitar players diving for the dictionary!

[@vinyltapelover]

ghairraigh You are the first person i've seen mention the album God Bless a Child. As Mr. Burrell does not do bad stuff, lol, my favorite albums, of his, are Midnight Blue, Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas and God Bless the Child. Wes Montgomery, is by no means, chopped liver, but the sound of Kenny Burrell's guitar playing captured my eardrums first and I have been hooked as a fan. So, for me, it's Mr Burrell (1A) and Wes (1B) . That's how I roll.😊

[@123must]

Great jazz ! Thanks a lot

[@JonP1961]

At times, I could swear I'm hearing what surely must be a hollow-bodied electric. How the heck is this man getting that tone out of a acoustic w/o an pickups?!!!!!! Ok, that's it....must....find.....all....things Kenny Burrell. WOW.

[@elliottglassart4859]

YEAR PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[@jasondotson]

This a tremendous version of the ""Kind of Blue" classic!

[@iamthemindseye]

This is a GREAT cover ! I love Oscar Brown Jr.'s lyrics too ! Can't seem to find him (Oscar Brown J.) performing it anywhere....can anyone help ?

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

This is the first time that I have checked out Kenny and the reason that I did so was after watching a video where Peter Frampton cited Kenny as a major Jazz influence of his along with Wes Montgomery .

[@wisesatyr72]

I love jazz guitar players and doublebass solos

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

Great stuff !

[@jacopman]

Kenny's great........opened up some areas for me in my playing.......Hendrix has been quoted in saying who was a better player (Terry Kath....Phil Kegy) than him or who influence him (Johnny Guitar Watson)..........but Burrell was his favorite to listen to.

[@marcosbortoletto7192]

Fantástico........!!!

[@rayjr62]

Yes. As I mentioned, when asked who their favorite jazz guitarist was, all three said it was Kenny.

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

can you say smooth!? beauty.

[@written12]

I had no idea Kenny played an acoustic guitar. I haven't heard a ton of his recordings but still, I'd heard enough to think I knew he was playing an electric. Anyway, the opening of this version really made me hear Miles' tune anew. There's much to be said about hearing jazz chestnuts horn-free.

[@vifa1069MW3]

Que grande admiración absoluta Kenny ❤️❤️

[@shouki09]

I got to play with Kenny in Japan in the 90's

[@charmister]

Nothing is out of place.

[@seerskater]

haha that bass player looks so tight! Its like if my high school math teacher picked up the bass and then turned into the coolest cat ever

[@yourgirlme9163]

amazing

[@sandrobertini9171]

Splendida... meglio dell'originale

[@onesyphorus]

5:35 I love how the drummer's hitting a cymbal on the 'and's of each beat

[@spratscat]

Real nice job... ok, is it me, or does Bob Magnusson look like John Bolton, the former UN ambassador under W?

[@jazzclarinet2006]

@phileejazzlocks Really? You are so lucky! He is one of my absolute favorite musicians. He must be an amazing teacher.

[@dagostinoification]

quelles émotion d'entendre ce merveilleux guitariste qui est une légende du jazz! phrasé mélodique,spirituel...didier d'agostino batteur sur youyube,ex rhoda .scott.

[@MrViglioni]

ESPETACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Flat5guitar]

@axiluss I don't think it is a classical guitar. Note the 14-fret neck join. Classicals are almost always 12-frets. I think this is a luthier-built steel string, mahogany back and sides, in the general Martin style. Kenny sure sounds great!

[@ghairraigh]

I never heard Kenny play "All Blues" on an acoustic guitar before, or switch guitars in the middle of a tune. The acoustic really "speaks" and feels so different. I guess he started the tune off on acoustic to keep the set going. He switches to his Gibson Super 400 electric guitar during the bass solo.

[@DaddySantaClaus]

this is how you play blues

[@joehiggs100]

One of the masters! wonderful, thanks.Does Mr Burrell really swap guitars during the bass solo though?

[@TheGlover406]

Classe pura

[@JJK]

Awesome!

[@JazzGuitarJuo]

What a Beautiful sounding guitar, What type of Gibson is it plz??