Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane is a studio album of music performed by jazz musicians Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. It was released on the New Jazz label in April 1963.^[1][2] The recording was made on March 7, 1958. It was reissued in 1967 on New Jazz's parent label Prestige, with a different cover and retitled The Kenny Burrell Quintet With John Coltrane. The record was the second to feature Coltrane, Burrell, and Flanagan playing together in a small group. Eleven months earlier, the three recorded The Cats, which was first released in December of 1959 on the New Jazz label.

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Studio album by Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Released	April 1963 (1963-04)[1][2]
Recorded	March 7, 1959
Studio	Van Gelder (Hackensack)
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:20
Label	New Jazz NJ 8276
Producer	Bob Weinstock
John Coltrane chronology
Ballads (1963) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1963) Impressions (1963)
Kenny Burrell chronology
Blue Lights (1958) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1962) Blue Bash! (1963)
Alternative cover
The Kenny Burrell Quintet With John Coltrane (PR 7532, 1968)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[6]

Lindsay Planer of AllMusic gave it 4 stars, stating: "While not one of Coltrane's most assured performances, he chases the groove right into the hands of Burrell. The guitarist spins sonic gold and seems to inspire similar contributions from Chambers' bowed bass and Coltrane alike."^[3]

Track listing

1. "Freight Trane" (Tommy Flanagan) – 7:18
2. "I Never Knew" (Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn) – 7:04
3. "Lyresto" (Kenny Burrell) – 5:41
4. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:12
5. "Big Paul" (Tommy Flanagan) – 14:05

Personnel

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Kenny Burrell – guitar
• Tommy Flanagan – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

References

1. Editorial Staff, Cash Box (April 13, 1963). "New Jazz LP Discount; 4 New Albums Included" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
2. DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 512. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
3. Planer, Lindsay. "Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane review". AllMusic.
4. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.