Kenny Burrell
USA
Born: 31 July 1931
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Soul Jazz/Groove, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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One of the leading exponents of straight-ahead jazz guitar, Kenny Burrell is a highly influential artist whose understated and melodic style, grounded in bebop and blues, made him in an in-demand sideman from the mid-'50s onward and a standard by which many jazz guitarists gauge themselves to this day. Born in Detroit in 1931, Burrell grew up in a musical family in which his mother played piano and sang in the Second Baptist Church choir and his father favored the banjo and ukulele. Burrell began playing guitar at age 12 and quickly fell under ...
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