God Bless the Child at Amazon

Very good playing from the always impeccable Mr. Burrell. The electric piano was de rigueur for the period, 1971, and is very much more than tolerable. The Don Sebesky string arrangements, however, are over the top with the cheese factor, but mercifully they are only appended to heads and tails of the songs. Creed Taylor and Don Sebesky seemed to have a taste for individually wrapped processed cheese slices - always a caveat to bear in mind when picking up things on the CTI label.


Wikipedia: Kenny Burrell

Clips....

Not from the God Bless the Child album but rather from his next album, Round Midnight, so it has a very similar sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkB5pUkqQE

A somewhat random sampling of Youtube clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmn8qGn5zt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VVPQYzxso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204mr...x=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82cw3WLO9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KeSGpPToTE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuooQYdCaIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vef9dp-Qc2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b78cvTk5cY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8wRazf_OHI

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