a night at the vanguard

Kenny Burrell is a genre-defining guitarist whose low-volume fretboard excursions have hushed large crowds in noisy nightclubs for over five decades. To say Burrell is a great jazz guitarist is like saying Charlie Parker played excellent alto sax. The favorite guitarist of musical legends ranging from Duke Ellington, George Benson and Dizzy Gillespie to B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Burrell is revered today as an artist whose recent live and recorded appearances have become events of epic proportions.
Tracked for the Argo label in 1959, Kenny Burrell's A Night at the Vanguard is a prime example of the masterful art of this Detroit native. Accompanied by a superb rhythm section of bassist Richard Davis and Roy Haynes on drums, Burrell weaves his magic before a spell- bound Village Vanguard crowd. From the angular Thelonious Monk classic "Well, You Needn't" to Matt Dennis' cheery ballad "Will You Still Be Mine" and the manifold joys of Erroll Garner's "Trio," Burrell is simply on fire".