3LP ON 2 CD SET

This release contains all of the existing material from the session originally issued on two LP volumes as Blue Lights (Blue Note BST-81596/97), both of which boasted stellar covers designed by Andy Warhol. The date featured guitarist Kenny Burrell leading a septet (on some tracks reduced to a smaller format) showcasing brilliant soloists, among them tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks. The splendid tenor was one of many ill-fated jazzmen. Brooks would stop recording in early 1961 and wouldn’t b e heard from again prior to his death in 1974, at the age of 42. Another classic Kenny Burrell album, On View at the Five Spot Café(Blue Note BLP-4021), this time featuring Tina Brooks as the only horn soloist, has been added in its entirety as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

KENNY BURRELL, guitar
TINA BROOKS & JUNIOR COOK, tenor sax
LOUIS SMITH, trumpet
DUKE JORDAN or BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
SAM JONES, bass
ART BLAKEY, drums.

Manhattan Towers, May 14, 1958.

(*) BONUS ALBUM (CD2, 2-9): ON VIEW AT THE FIVE SPOT CAFÉ

KENNY BURRELL, guitar
TINA BROOKS, tenor sax
SIR ROLAND HANNA or BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
BEN TUCKER, bass
ART BLAKEY, drums

Live at the Five Spot, New York, August 25, 1959.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1 TOTAL TIME 76:25

01. PHINUPI
02. YES BABY
03. SCOTCH BLUES
04. THE MAN I LOVE
05. I NEVER KNEW
06. CARAVAN
07. CHUCKIN’
08. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK

CD 2 TOTAL TIME 75:05

01. ROCK SALT
02. BIRKS’ WORKS
03. HACKENSACK [ISSUED AS LADY BE GOOD]
04. LOVER MAN
05. SWINGIN’
06. HALLELUJAH 07. BEEF STEW BLUES
08. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
09. 36-23-36