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Prestige

The Best Of Kenny Burrell

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Recorded1966
LabelPrestige
CatalogPR 7448
Released1966
Personnel14 credited players
Discogsmaster 510153

The record

A 1966 Prestige compilation, PR 7448, with doubled chairs right through the credits -- Hank Mobley and Frank Foster on tenors, Tommy Flanagan and Mal Waldron on pianos, Barry Galbraith's guitar alongside Burrell's own. Donald Byrd and Jerome Richardson turn up too. Five titles, 'Billie's Bounce' through 'Prelude To A Kiss'. Bob Porter dated his notes January 1966.

Tracks

  1. It Don't Mean A Thing
  2. Body And Soul
  3. Billie's Bounce
  4. C.P.W.
  5. Prelude To A Kiss

Session personnel

  • Doug Watkins — Bass
  • Leonard Gaskin — Bass
  • Art Taylor — Drums
  • Bobby Donaldson — Drums
  • Jerome Richardson — Flute
  • Barry Galbraith — Guitar
  • Kenny Burrell — Guitar
  • Bob Porter — Liner Notes [Jan 1966]
  • Mal Waldron — Piano
  • Tommy Flanagan — Piano
  • Don Schlitten — Producer
  • Frank Foster — Tenor Saxophone
  • Hank Mobley — Tenor Saxophone
  • Donald Byrd — Trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1966Prestige · PR 7448 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono earliest on file
1966Prestige · PR 7448 — Vinyl LP Compilation Stereo Remastered
1966Prestige · PRST 7448 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Remastered
1968Prestige · PR8-114 — 8-Track Cartridge, Compilation, Reissue, Stereo
1972Prestige · PRT-7448 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Remastered, Reissue
1995Blue Note · CDP 7243 8 30493 2 5 — CD, Compilation
1995Blue Note · CDP 7243 8 30493 2 5 — CD, Compilation, Stereo, Mono
1995Blue Note · D 108138 — CD, Compilation, Club Edition, Stereo, Mono
Prestige · MJ 7102 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono

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Art Taylor also plays on

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