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Among their reissues are a large tranche of famed on Verve, which brings bebop spoken here us to Guitar Forms, nominally a Kenny Burrell LP although personally I’d be Mary Coughlan @ Caedman Hall, Gateshead. October 17 OUR PODCAST JINGLE BY tempted file it under the name of its masterful arranger, . Recorded in late KATE WILLIAMS 1964 and early 1965, Guitar Forms has never quite had the cachet of timeless The Jazz Breakfast The Pedrito Martinez Group Evans albums like his collaborations with Miles Davis, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain. And, in fairness, only five of the nine tracks on Guitar Forms feature the full The Jazz Mann Seth Lakeman - Seth Lakeman, glory of Evans’ orchestral backings. Three others are quintet cuts with Burrell Robin 2 Club, Bilston, supported by on , on bass, the great Grady Wolverhampton, 15/10/2013. Tate on drums and Willie Rodriguez on congas. The ninth track is a pure solo by thebluemoment.com Burrell, an excerpt from his guitar transcription of Gershwin’s Prelude #2 for Piano. Ribot, Grimes & Taylor Jazzwise Magazine The way Lotus Land begins you might be forgiven for thinking that it’s another solo Obituary: Tommy Whittle 1926- 2013 guitar piece. But Burrell’s meditative, flamenco-flavoured strumming and bluesy Jazz Yorkshire http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/10/lp-review-kenny-burrell-guitar-forms.html Seite 1 von 5 LondonJazz: LP Review: Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms 18.10.13 10:56

plucking is gradually shadowed by ominous bass, slinky, insinuating tambourines Gig(s) Preview: Impossible Gentlemen and Zoe Rahman @ and measured, menacing snare drum as the composition grows and snowballs in a Seven Jazz way reminiscent of Sketches of Spain. Soon Burrell’s guitar is writhing as if trying to Jazzshaped escape from a cluster of flutes before the cool hand of the saxes is laid across the Jazz In The 21st Century: feverish sound. (And it’s a very cool hand, with , and Experiencing The Genre On A in the sax section.) This is vintage Gil Evans writing, right up there with Windows Tablet Time of the Barracudas or El Toreador. Its intensity is such that it’s almost a relief to Liam Noble's Brother Face proceed to the airy mellowness of Terrace Theme, a quintet track with Burrell’s fat Tour Blog New Address : tone set in counterpoint to Rodriguez’s spare congas and Kellaway’s throwaway www.liamnoble68.wordpress.co piano frills — and one begins to understand the original concept of the , the m

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