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Analogue Productions - CBNJ 84123 SA - SACD Hybrid Stereo
Mastered By Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio - Blue Note ST-84123
Limited Edition - Plays on Standard CD Players
One of the best-sounding Blue Notes. True to its title, the music and groove of this album is for late nights and low lights. Thick, smoky, humid – a killer you gotta own.
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Great recording! The sound is clean and pure. A must have for your SACD collection. One of my favorites. One of those albums where every single song shines. I must add... on #2 track "Mule" bass is very unique to SACD sound and is only listenable and intriguing to the ears on this SACD and streaming the bass is too "fat" and overbearing. Here it's just a bliss like it's not even a struggle. The rise and decay of bass is evident and sound is completely like Night and Day to a CD recording.HRAudio Review
Alfred Lion considered Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue his favorite production and well he should have. Without piano, Burrell, Stanley Turrentine and company get a clean open sound and a deep groove on such classic compositions as the title tune and "Chitlins Con Carne," which has become a blues band staple.
Kenny Burrell has led over 100 albums in his long career and is the epitome of good taste and melodic swing, never playing a phrase that would be considered out-of-place or unworthy. He first recorded in 1951 with Dizzy Gillespie and was a major part of the Detroit jazz scene before emerging in New York in 1956. Burrell was one of the very first guitarists to be showcased in a pianoless trio, and when he was signed to Blue Note, he became one of the most influential guitarists in jazz. However to hear Burrell at his most soulful and bluesy, one has to find recordings where he is teamed with a particularly inspiring stylist. 1963’s Midnight Blue is considered one of the most exciting recordings of Kenny Burrell’s long career.
It was a magical occasion that teamed Burrell with the passionate tenor-saxophonist Stanley Turrentine in a pianoless quintet that also includes Ray Barretto on congas. With Turrentine (who is immediately recognizable within two sounds) infusing each note with an excess of soul and Barretto giving the blues-oriented music a Latin tinge, Burrell raises the heat and is heard at his most exhilarating and extroverted. His soulful playing on such songs as “Chitlins Con Carne,” “Saturday Night Blues” and “Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You” is so greasy and emotional that it reminds one that both B.B. King and Duke Ellington often cited Kenny Burrell as their favorite guitarist. While Kenny Burrell has recorded scores of albums since this time, Midnight Blue cannot be topped and will always be one of the key recordings that he will be remembered for.
This superbly recorded classic needs to be in every jazz collection
Here on Hybrid Stereo SACD.
• Stereo SACD
• This Hybrid SACD is playable on ALL CD Players!
Musicians:
Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax
Kenny Burrell, guitar
Major Holley, Jr., bass
Bill English, drums
Ray Barretto, conga
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue
1. Chittlins Con Carne
2. Mule
3. Soul Lament
4. Midnight Blue
5. Wavy Gravy
6. Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You
7. Saturday Night Blues
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