Kenny Burrell Tribute Page

Kenny Burrell has been a high in demand guitarist during all his career (he was Duke Ellington's favorite guitar player). Some of the jazz giants he played with : Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, .

His most famous record is 'Midnight Blue' with the Latin flavored hit 'Chitlins Con Carne', later covered by blues giant Stevie Ray Vaughan.

He has a cool guitar tone and is able to perform some very smooth jazz guitar. His main influences are bop, blues and latin and you can hear a lot of pentatonics and blues scales in his improvisations.