Artist: 
Kenny Burrell

On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters

3LP - Tone Poet Vinyl
€85,00

Release date: 11 April 2025

Article Number: 514399000

Guitarist Kenny Burrell had already achieved rising star status with several stellar Blue Note albums to his name when he entered the storied NYC jazz club The Five Spot Café on August 25, 1959 to record "On View At The Five Spot Café". The band Burrell assembled for the gig was stacked with top talent: Art Blakey on drums, Tina Brooks on tenor saxophone, Roland Hanna and Bobby Timmons on piano, and Ben Tucker on bass. The mood was relaxed and soulful, but the music was red hot and the grooves were deep on that steamy summer evening of hard bop bliss. 

The newly expanded 3-LP Tone Poet Vinyl Edition of On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters gives the listener the best seat in the house and marks the first time Burrell’s complete recorded performances from that magical evening have been made available in any format, including six previously unreleased tracks. This deluxe tri-fold edition includes a plethora of great editorial, with never-before-seen Francis Wolff photos, essay by Syd Schwartz and an insightful new interview of Kenny Burrell by Don Was.  Also available in a 2-CD set.


Tracklisting:

LP1
Introduction by Kenny Burrell
A1. BIRKS WORKS (Dizzy Gillespie)
A2. HALLELUJAH * (Youmans)
B1. LADY BE GOOD (Gershwin)
B2. LOVER MAN (Ramirez)
B3. 36-23-36 * (Burrell)    

LP2 
A1. SWINGIN’ (Clifford Brown)
A2. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (Tad Dameron, Carl Sigman)
A3. BEEF STEW BLUES (Randy Weston)
B1. THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME, THINGS WON’T BE THE SAME (Earl Forest, Bill Harvey)
B2. THE TAKE OFF (Burrell)    

LP3
A1. BIRKS WORKS – Alternate Take (Dizzy Gillespie)
A2. LADY BE GOOD – Alternate Take (Gershwin)
B1. LOVE WALKED IN (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
B2. 36-23-36 / THE THEME (Burrell)    

KENNY BURRELL, guitar
ART BLAKEY, drums
TINA BROOKS, tenor sax
BEN TUCKER, bass
* BOBBY TIMMONS, ROLAND HANNA, piano
Recorded August 25, 1959 live at the Five Spot Café, NYC