Guitar Forms

Guitar Forms
Studio album by
Kenny Burrell
Released1965
RecordedDecember 4, 15, 1964, Webster Hall, New York City, New York, April 6, 12, 1965, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length38:31
LabelVerve
ProducerCreed Taylor
Kenny Burrell chronology
Freedom
(1963-64) 		Guitar Forms
(1965) 		The Tender Gender
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]
DownBeat[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]

Guitar Forms is a 1965 album by Kenny Burrell, featuring arrangements by Gil Evans.[1] Evans' orchestra appears on five of the album's nine tracks, including the nearly 9-minute "Lotus Land". Three tracks are blues numbers in a small group format and there is one solo performance: "Prelude #2".

Reception

In 1966, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group or Soloist with Large Group, for Best Album Cover – Photography, and Gil Evans was nominated for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for "Greensleeves".[6]

Track listing

  1. "Downstairs" (Elvin Jones) – 2:53
  2. "Lotus Land" (Cyril Scott) – 9:38
  3. "Terrace Theme" (Joe Benjamin) – 4:02
  4. "Prelude No. 2" (George Gershwin) – 2:17
  5. "Moon and Sand" (William Engvick, Morty Palitz, Alec Wilder) – 4:16
  6. "Loie" (Kenny Burrell) – 3:19
  7. "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 4:12
  8. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 4:34
  9. "Breadwinner" (Burrell) – 3:00
    Alternative tracks included on the Verve Jazz Masters reissue:
  10. "Downstairs" – 4:11
  11. "Downstairs" – 3:06
  12. "Downstairs" – 2:38
  13. "Downstairs" – 2:36
  14. "Terrace Theme" – 2:59
  15. "Terrace Theme" – 3:58
  16. "Terrace Theme" – 4:09
  17. "Breadwinner" – 3:51
  18. "Breadwinner" – 3:49
  19. "Breadwinner" – 3:17
  20. "Breadwinner" – 3:04

Personnel

Combo

Orchestra

Production


Charts

Chart performance for Guitar Forms
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[7] 30

References

  1. ^ a b Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Guitar Forms - Kenny Burrell | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (23 October 1965). "Kenny Burrell: Guitar Forms" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 241. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ DownBeat magazine, November 4, 1965, p. 26
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 33. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ "1965 Grammy Winners". grammy.com. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  7. ^ "Lista prodaje 25. tjedan 2024" (in Croatian). HDU. June 10, 2024. Archived from the original on June 29, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2024.