Kenny Burrell - God Bless The Child


Label:

Pure Pleasure Records (CTI)

Genre:

Jazz

Product No.:
APPR 6011
EAN: 5060149622155
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180 Gram Vinyl Record



180 Gram LP

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180-gram vinyl

Mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, London

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, April, May 1971

"Kenny Burrell's guitar artistry is well-documented in his years with Oscar Peterson and on his first dates as a leader on the Blue Note label, but God Bless the Child, his only date for CTI in 1971, is an under-heard masterpiece in his catalogue. Burrell's band for the set includes bassist Ron Carter, percussionist Ray Barretto, Richard Wyands on piano, flutist Hubert Laws, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, and drummer Billy Cobham. CTI's house arranger, Don Sebesky, assembled and conducted the strings in a manner that stands strangely and beautifully apart from his other work on the label.

"Sebesky understood Burrell's understated approach to playing guitar. Burrell didn't belong with the fusioneers, but he could groove better than any of them. Sebesky built a moody, atmospheric soundscape behind him, one that was as impressionistic as it was illuminating of a player who could dig in and chop it up — as he does on his own composition 'Love Is the Answer' and 'Do What You Gotta Do' — and stroke it smooth and mellow as on the title track, the truly sublime 'Be Yourself,' and Thad Jones' 'A Child Is Born.' This is Burrell at his level best as a player to be sure, but also as a composer and as a bandleader. Magnificent." — AllMusic

 



Side 1
1. Be yourself
2. Love Is The Answer
3. Do What You Gotta Do

Side 2
4. A Child Is Born
5. God Bless The Child

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