![]() ![]() He would later favour the Fender Twin Reverb. (Also known as the Tweed Deluxe or 5E3.) This amp has distinctly musical overdrive and compression characteristics and emphasizes mid range frequencies. Most of his 1950s recordings were done with his Fender Deluxe amp. He also has a signature model built by Heritage that is essentially a Super 400 model. But the guitar he is most associated with is the Gibson Super 400. Early on it was the ES-175 (with the Charlie Christian bar pickup) as well as the L-7 and L-5 models. Guitar-wise, Burrell has used Gibsons for the majority of his career. The UCLA jazz program has flourished under his stewardship and boasts an All-Star faculty. ![]() This position evolved out of a course he has taught since 1978 called Ellingtonia. “I like a fat warm sound, so I set the treble lower, the bass medium, and I pump up the middle.” -Kenny BurrellĪs much an educator as a performer, he is the director of the Jazz Studies program at UCLA. (The lines between pop and jazz were blurry and indistinct in the 1950s and early 60s. He played on countless pop albums in a time when jazz musicians often worked in this milieu. He could play beautiful unaccompanied chordal passages, frenetic single note barrages, supple blues vamps and swinging bebop lines - all these ideas being superficially disparate, yet clearly coming from the mind of a player with a clear idea of what he wanted to sound like.Ī much in demand studio musician, his recorded output is huge. The result was a sound that was at once refined and raw, eloquent and boisterous. His style was hewn from electric blues, original (proto) bebop and classical guitar in almost equal measure. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, he grew up with a whole cadre of equally legendary figures who would define 1950s jazz including the Jones brothers (Thad, Hank, Elvin), Tommy Flanagan, Yusef Lateef, and Paul Chambers, among others. Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is a true original and legend of jazz guitar. ![]()
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