Kenny Burrell

• 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE LP

• STEREO, FULLY ANALOG MASTERED

• GATEFOLD EDITION

Kenny Burrell had been recording for Blue Note less than a year when he entered Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, New Jersey studio in February 1957 for his 3rd session as a leader for the label. The date presented the guitarist’s signature stylings with a crack team of hard boppers featuring Horace Silver  Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins , and Louis Hayes.

Side A finds the band stretching out on a jaunty take of Silver’s tune “Nica’s Dream,” written for the jazz baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, and Burrell’s hard charging “Out for Blood.” Side B offers up several views of the blues with an excellent version of Lester Young’s “D.B. Blues” book-ended by two different takes of Burrell’s easy-going “K.B Blues.” Previously only issued on vinyl in Japan, this swinging set is given a new shine as part of the Tone Poet Series.

PERSONNEL:

• Kenny Burrell - (guitar)
• Hank Mobley - (tenor sax)
• Horace Silver - (piano)
• Doug Watkins - (bass)
• Louis Hayes - (drums)

Hackensack, New Jersey on February 10, 1957

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1: Nica's Dream
• A2: Out For Blood

• SIDE B
• B1: K.B. Blues
• B2: D. B. Blues
• B3: K. B. Blues (Alternate Take)