LondonJazz: LP Review: Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms 18.10.13 10:56 Teilen 0 Mehr Nächster Blog» Blog erstellen Anmelden Home Venues Can We Help? Contact `Kaz Simmons - Signs LP Review: Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms Tweets Follow Michael 20h Janisch @mpjanisch @LondonJazz thanks Seb! Much appreciated and great compering -> pic.twitter.com/a8FIwLB8r7 Retweeted by LondonJazzNews Recent Comments Lance commented on Rip Tommy Whittle 1926 2013: “Britain's Zoot Getz!” Anonymous commented on Cecile Mclorin Salvant At Ronnie Scotts: “I saw Expand her for the 1st time on Jools Holland, what a talent. Every note was sung with ESIP 16h such clarity. …” @esipuk Manu Dibango LIVE at the Derek Akien commented on Rip Tommy @BarbicanCentre on the Whittle 1926 2013: “Sad news. As 26th November! Get your teenagers we used to watch Tommy 50 tickets now: years ago at the Hopvine, Wembley. Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms barbican.org.uk/music/event-de Fantastic bebop…” (Speakers Corner/Verve V6-8612. 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Initially Speakers Corner devoted its output to classical music, but luckily for us they soon expanded to include jazz in their catalogue. Links We Like - UK Jazz Recent Comments Widget Among their reissues are a large tranche of famed albums 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, Gil Evans. 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 Roger Kellaway on piano, Joe Benjamin 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. 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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 album, the m thesis and antithesis of big band numbers. Corey Mwamba's From ImStillAwake - click pic for the full Cognizance track A beguiling Latin percussion sound also leads us into Moon and Sand, but this is Working Conditions and Union Representation in Music Work - another orchestral track and the drummers now are Charlie Persip and Elvin talk Jones. Burrell is perhaps at his most beautiful on this number set against a Dalston Sound LondonJazz Podcasts backdrop of trombones, always a key instrument for Evans and played here by Roscoe Mitchell, Tony Marsh, Jimmy Cleveland and Jimmy Knepper. 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