Biography
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist, singer and composer known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit Verve album Organ Grinder Swing. Burrell has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters. Burrell is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Giant Steps
1960
Ballads
1963
Chet
1959
Midnight Blue
1963
The Sky Is Crying
1991
Back At The Chicken Shack
1963
Lady Sings The Blues
1956
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
1963
Home Cookin'
1961
Chet Baker In New York
1958
Bass On Top
1957
Getz Au Go Go
1964
A New Perspective
1964
Got My Mojo Workin'
1966
My Conception
1979
Midnight Special
1961
The Cats
1959
Kenny Burrell
1956
Soul '69
1969
Blowin' The Blues Away
1959
Hoodoo Man Blues
1966
The Sermon!
1959
Deciphering The Message
2021
God Bless The Child
1971
Credited work
6,443 releases · 836 albums · active 1952–2026
- Performance · 10,004
- Other credits · 178
- Production · 129
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Manhattan Towers · A&R Studios