Guitar Forms

by Kenny Burrell

Guitar Forms cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1965
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:14:57
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collaborating with master arranger Gil Evans, 'Guitar Forms' finds Kenny Burrell pushing beyond the standard jazz organ trio format to explore a vast array of stylistic templates. Burrell switches between classical and electric guitars, navigating lush orchestral backdrops, bossa nova rhythms, and raw blues idioms with equal dexterity. It is a highly sophisticated, panoramic showcase of his immense instrumental versatility.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, Ballad, acoustic, instrumental, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Downstairs - Master Take (2:50)
  2. Lotus Land (9:35)
  3. Terrace Theme - Master Take (3:59)
  4. Excerpts From Prelude No. 2 (2:14)
  5. Moon And Sand (4:14)
  6. Loie (3:17)
  7. Greensleeves (4:11)
  8. Last Night When We Were Young (4:31)
  9. Breadwinner - Master Take (2:50)
  10. Downstairs - Alternate Take 18 (4:08)
  11. Downstairs - Alternate Take 19 (3:03)
  12. Downstairs - Alternate Take 20 (2:35)
  13. Downstairs - Alternate Take 21 (2:33)
  14. Terrace Theme - Alternate Take 11 (2:56)
  15. Terrace Theme - Alternate Take 12 (3:56)
  16. Terrace Theme - Alternate Take 17 (4:04)
  17. Breadwinner - Alternate Take 2 (3:48)
  18. Breadwinner - Alternate Take 3 (3:46)
  19. Breadwinner - Alternate Take 5 (3:15)
  20. Breadwinner - Alternate Take 6 (3:04)

Credits

  • Kenny Burrell - primary artist, guitar, guitar [sologuitar], written-by
  • Lee Konitz - alto saxophone
  • Gil Evans - arranged by, conductor
  • Joe Benjamin - bass, written-by
  • Ron Carter - bass
  • Bob Tricarico - bassoon, flute, tenor saxophone
  • Willie Rodriguez - congas
  • Charlie Persip - drums

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