Midnight Blue (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Midnight Blue
Type = studio
Artist = Kenny Burrell


Released = 1963
Recorded = April 21 1963
Genre = Jazz, Jazz blues
Length = 45:18
Label = Blue Note
Producer = Michael Cuscuna, Alfred Lion, Tom Vasatka
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfwxqtgldhe link]
Last album = "Out of This World"
(1962)
This album = "Midnight Blue"
(1963)
Next album = "Lotsa Bossa Nova"
(1963)

"Midnight Blue" is a 1963 sessions album by Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell. Featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, is one of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. [allmusicguide |id=10:gzfwxqtgldhe |label=Midnight Blue] "Jazz Improv Magazine" lists the album among its top five recommended recordings for Burrell, indicating that " [i] f you need to know 'the Blue Note sound', here it is". [ [http://www.jazzimprov.com/links/legends.cfm?legend_id=1 Jazz Legends Kenny Burrell] "Jazz Improv Magazine" website. Accessed November 6 2007.] In 2005, NPR included the album in its "Basic Jazz Library", describing it as "one of the great jazzy blues records".Horwitz, Murray. (April 1 2005) [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4556421 Kenny Burrell 'Midnight Blue'] NPR. Accessed November 6 2007.] The album has been multiply re-issued by Blue Note and the French label Classics.

Track listing

"Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Kenny Burrell."

#"Chitlins con Carne" – 5:30
#"Mule" (Burrell, Major Holley, Jr.) – 6:56
#"Soul Lament" – 2:43
#"Midnight Blue" – 4:02
#"Wavy Gravy" – 5:47
#"Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 4:25
#"Saturday Night Blues" – 6:16
#"Kenny's Sound" (reissue bonus track) – 4:43
#"K Twist" (reissue bonus track)– 3:36

Personnel

Performance

*Kenny Burrell – guitar
*Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone
*Major Holley – bass
*Billy Gene English – drums
*Ray Barretto – conga

Production

*Eric Bernhardi – graphic design
*Bob Blumenthal – liner notes
*Micaela Boland – design
*Michael Cuscuna – producer, reissue producer
*Leonard Feather – original liner notes
*Gordon Jee – creative director
*Alfred Lion – producer
*Reid Miles – cover design, typography
*Rudy Van Gelder – engineer, remastering
*Tom Vasatka – Producer
*Francis Wolff – photography, cover photo

References