Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit album Organ Grinder Swing. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters.
Burrell is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Albums:
Best of Kenny Burrell (1956)
Bluesy Burrell (1962)
Midnight Blue (1963)
Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane (1963)
Guitar Forms (1964)
For Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman (1966)
Man at Work (1966)
Ode To 52nd Street (1967)
Night Song (1968)
God Bless the Child (1971)
Tin Tin Deo (1977)
Primal Blue (1995)
Love Is the Answer (1998)
Blue Muse (2003)