Talk:Kenny Burrell

Where's the bio?
Where did he come from? Can we get no info on his life?

Does anyone know his ethnicity?

Number of LPs confusing
I notice the article says he has recorded about 40LPs, then in the very next paragraph it says he recorded his 99th LP...Clarification needed?

Beckmutations (talk) 01:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC) Dan L. 2009/03/02

Not the first university level-Ellington class
This article states, As of 2007, Burrell serves as Director of Jazz Studies at UCLA. In fact, one of Burrell's courses which he teaches is "Ellingtonia", examining the life and accomplishments of Duke Ellington. This program was the first university-level course in the country focusing on the artist.

In fact, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, USA had a course during the 1970s and 80s titled, "Arranging in the Style of Duke Ellington." It was a hard core, nuts and bolts music class that focused on the actual notes and rhythms one would write for a typical Ellington big band. You couldn't get closer to the essence of the Ellington legacy than that (the actual music). So, sorry, Burrell's class doesnt come close to qualifying as "...the first university-level course in the country focusing on the [Ellington]." I'd say that Berklee teacher, Ted Pease, had Burrell beat by 30 years. :)

The Berklee course was considered prestigious and you had to audition with an arrangement to get in the class. I never made an attempt to enter the class though I earned my degree at Berklee in the early 80s and was well aware of others who did.

I would prefer that the edit be performed by the original author. Thank you!

12.72.194.96 (talk) 22:25, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Wes Montgomery - an influence?
I thought that they were contemporaries and maybe Burrell preceded him as far as record releases go. I'm not too sure but I'll investigate since I owe Burrell a couple of inversions and some riffs. I saw Jimmy Smith at the Jazz Cafe in London with a pickup band and the guitarist (not Burrell - I'm talking about late in the career of Smith) was great though he really laid it down on the Smith tracks that had originally featured Burrell - guess he played along to the records as well.

Also we need his equipment detailed and a small description of his style which is more economical than many other Jazz guitarist. A very good guitarist to play along with though I will add I'm not a Jazz guitarist as such though I did create an exercise for the Guitar book at Wikibooks using the stab chords (an approximation rather than verbatim) I grabbed of "Organ Grinder Swing".

Cheers Kenny.

Sluffs (talk) 00:01, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

“Jazzmen of Detroit” record, Savoy 1956
The above album is not mentioned in his discography. Even as the members are given equal billing, I believe he was the nominal leader of the group. 2600:1700:F090:2690:79BD:1408:34C5:8811 (talk) 13:42, 14 August 2022 (UTC)